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...freedom was accepted, it ran riot. The urban women of China began streaming in droves to the divorce courts, whose business soon amounted to one-third of all civil litigation in some parts of the country. The simplicity of severing marriage ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers...
Worthy and two Look Magazine correspondents still face possible legal action and passport revocation because of their disregard of the State Department edict that their passports were invalid in Red China...
...majority of the committee, large segments of the population were disturbed at what they considered purely political appointments. Letters of protest poured into the Committee office from parents, from Parent-Teacher Associations, and even from teachers' and masters' associations. Sample letters read: "We disapprove... of this open, callous disregard of the best interests of our school children;" "You are destroying the confidence of parents, teachers, children, and masters;" "You have broken a sacred trust placed in you by citizens...
...curse-a lethal curse. The American male has been indoctrinated with the philosophy that he must live, work and play at a dizzy pace . . . Whether such behavior is necessary or desirable is rarely considered. The man can take it! He must show others that he can take it and disregard any limitations of his mind or body...
DOUBTING THOMAS, by Winston Brebner. A brief, deceptively simple novel whose hero, a clown, brings a timely reminder that the fatal flaw of any totalitarian regime is its congenitally inhuman disregard of humanity's best impulses...