Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From time immemorial, there has been nobody to do the fighting except the flower of our manhood. But we still can't condone crimes in the street...
After ignoring the pile of matrimonial wreckage for more than a decade, the Communists are now awakening to its dark demographic consequences. Most Eastern European governments have passed laws making it harder to get a divorce, and most now prohibit abortion except in unusual circumstances. In Rumania, where Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu has declared war on "levity toward the family," both doctor and patient in an abortion case get stiff prison terms. The government makes it so hard to buy contraceptives that birth control pills have become an appreciated currency for tipping-even for those who get hold of only...
...moment, Danish law broadly allows virtually anything to be shown on the screen except an actual sex act. In the current Danish film, Venom, just released in the U.S., the most explicit scenes are covered by a censor's huge white X. The story line-if it can be called that-is about a youth who tries to convince his girl friend and her parents that sex is everything. His principal occupation is making voyeuristic movies of sexual intercourse. The X blots out most of his underground work, however, leaving the film with hardly a shock...
Since the smallpox virus has no natural reservoir except in man, the disease can be wiped out from a large region, as it has been in North America and most of Europe, once the cycle of infection is broken by making 85% or more of the population immune. Until now, the cycle of infection has been spinning virtually unchecked in West Africa, killing 25% of the virus' victims and hideously disfiguring or blinding as many more. Measles, which carried a death rate of less than one-tenth of 1% in the U.S. even before vaccinations began, kills from...
...prayer house, about as big as one of those very large doll houses in an F.A.O. Schwartz catalogue was as bare as could be except for a mat, a teapot, a tooth brush, and, disconcertingly, a stack of American comic books. I haven't any idea what they were doing there...