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Prison would become a personal purgatory for George Jackson, but such was not the case in his first incarceration at Paso Robles. After partially recovering from the initial shock of capture, he learned how to feign the capitulation which the authorities were attempting to elicit and was released shortly before Christmas...
Dispelling Myths. Most of the callers say they are married men. Many ask the same general question that Freud posed-and despaired of answering-several generations ago: "What turns a woman on?" Before offering suggestions, Community Sex volunteers gently try to elicit special circumstances and difficulties. The answer most men want is what to do about premature ejaculation. Other problems raised by both sexes concern anatomy, masturbation, birth control, venereal disease, menopause, and where to get an abortion...
...been qualitative changes. Nixon is a more orderly, more disciplined and less instinctive thinker than Johnson. He would rather read than talk; he probably demands and gets better briefs. Henry Kissinger is a more brilliant thinker than Walt Rostow or McGeorge Bundy. Under Nixon, there have been efforts to elicit a more systematic range of views from federal agencies, but whether they get any closer to the top man is doubtful. There is no convincing indication that the psychology and life-or-death motivation of the enemy is any clearer to Nixon officials, and fears of a U.S. "defeat" still...
...events of Mayday partake of the clouded contradictory reality of the liberal state. Gross repression seems to elicit embarrassment from some courts, some corporate executives, and some of the media. And gross repression still elicits disbelief from revolutionaries who ought to know better. Repression like that in Washington seems to help the movement of the "children of America" in Jerry Rubin's phrase-the white middle-class left-in a way that neither actions nor ideology seem able to do. Yet gross repression against the Panthers embarrasses no one on top, and certainly does not help build the Panthers, whose...
...events of Mayday partake of the clouded contradictory reality of the liberal state. Gross repression seoms to elicit embarrassment from some courts, some corporate executives, and some of the media. And gross repression still elicits disbelief from revolutionaries who ought to know better. Repression like that in Washington seems to help the movement of the "children of America" in Jerry Rubin's phrase-the white middle-class left-in a way that neither actions nor ideology seem able to do. Yet gross repression against the Panthers embarrasses no one on top, and certainly does not help build the Panthers, whose...