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This book is a survival manual, but not one like the usual keep-your-doors-locked-avoid-dark-places one. In the first place, it tries to dispel the notion that rapists are necessarily sick and crazy people lurking in the shadows. In fact, a study done at the University of Chicago, and quoted in the book, shows that 97 per cent of all convicted rapists could not be distinguished from other men through psychological tests. Rape is the province of every man, and "little rapes" are performed on women every moment...
...section, Associate Editor Peter Stoler has written dozens of stories on cancer. This week, in a four-page special report, he surveys the tragically topical subject of breast cancer, a disease that until recently many people were almost afraid to mention. "Our purpose," Stoler explains, "is to try to dispel some of the fears and myths by answering the questions that women have about breast cancer." While much of the article comes from cold, dispassionate research data, Stoler's analysis of the emotional effects of mastectomy is based on intimate, some times agonizing conversations between TIME correspondents and women...
...protest organizer, observed, "To go in front of an audience that is prepared for entertainment and to talk about politics would cause problems." The brief acknowledgement by a film society leader of the movie's blatantly racist content, presented before the uneventful Friday night showing, was insufficient to dispel the odor of some of the racial myths unabashedly portrayed...
Inwagen concluded his letter, "You present us with a difficult pedagogical problem. Before we can teach you anything, we must first dispel your delusions of philosophical grandeur. But you are so arrogant in you ignorance that I doubt whether this is possible...
That blunt response by President Gerald Ford at his press conference last week was either remarkably careless or remarkably candid. It left the troubling impression, which the Administration afterward did nothing to dispel, that the U.S. feels free to subvert another government whenever it suits American policy. In an era of détente with the Soviet Union and improving relations with China, Ford's words seemed to represent an anachronistic, cold-war view of national security reminiscent of the 1950s. Complained Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho with considerable hyperbole: "[It is] tantamount to saying that we respect...