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Easily the most impressive contribution to the magazine is Chuck Sabel's Play Without Passion, a deft, academic's treatment of the last years in the life of George Buchner, the 19th century German playwright who presaged the emotionally charged theater of the Expressionist school...
...country. Appointed a senior editor in 1967, Shnayerson handled TIME'S Essay section for almost two years, has since edited Law. Education and Environment, the last section he started, in 1969. Understatement and high standards are the Shnayerson style; his editing tends to be heavy but deft...
Escape Hatch. Lazy or hostile students are asked a tough question: "If you don't want to do this, what do you want to do, and why?" One shy girl has blossomed because she was allowed to hand in most of her written work in the form of deft cartoons. Though self-motivated kids can design their own independent study projects, no one can spend the entire year on one subject. All units have time limits; most include tests. Students who stray from their pods without an explanation get old-fashioned detention after school. Says Principal Jones, a pragmatic...
...dictionary-format text (supplemented by a Portnoyesque glossary of slang) similarly blends frankness with a pervading concern for mutual tenderness and respect in expressions of sexuality. The definition of brothel, for instance, is a deft putdown: "a house where people can rent sexual partners." Nudity describes the body not only as being "sexually attractive" but also as "vulnerable and in need of protection." Chastity, far from connoting abstinence, involves "respect for the sexual partner as an individual, not as a sexual object to be used at convenience." There is also compassionate treatment of the difficult subject of homosexuality...
...gangster's moll in the 1930 film classic Little Caesar. She went on to wisecrack her way through scores of Hollywood movies, including I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Gold Diggers of 1937 and the Torchy Blane series. Weary of being typecast, she made a deft transition in the 1950s to motherly roles on television and Broadway...