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Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff of ten read the entire stack and circulate a weekly digest that keeps the editors up-to-date on reader reaction. She has observed two trends in recent years: TIME'S audience has become increasingly concerned with serious issues in the news, and the letters are generally more thoughtful and balanced than in the past. In 1971, the biggest magnet for mail was the trial and conviction of William Galley; the Pentagon papers case and the "Jesus Revolution" cover story ranked second and third. Many readers took a stand...
...female address (instead of Mrs. or Miss), the magazine will appear on its own in January with a special double issue and then lie dormant until late spring, when monthly publication is scheduled to start. Elizabeth Harris, 49, a former vice president of CRM, Inc. (Psychology Today, Intellectual Digest), will serve as publisher. Editor Steinem, 37, envisions Ms. as a nonsexist "how to" magazine "for the liberated female human being-not how to make jelly but how to seize control of your life...
...plot is like a Freudian case history rewritten for the Reader's Digest -The Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance...
...misses the brutal impact it could have had if the plot and characters were more fully developed. Moreover, the long soliloquies which are made to carry most of the burden reveal little about the characters and at least one, Violet's, is totally superfluous. The play is hard to digest, but it does leave one with enough of its strange, bittersweet mood for a successful evening...
...understand the war is to pretend that each time a GI or a Vietnamese dies, that it was my brother or my father or my mother that had died. By now over a million Vietnamese have died and probably eighty thousand Americans. All of America could not begin to digest that much sorrow... We are left with the freedom, and also the necessity of inventing ourselves. Instead of finding meaning in our lives, we must first find a direction. The Vietnamese, for example, are different. Their condition presents them with the necessity of fighting American Aggression. They accept the necessity...