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STATISTICS, especially on a subject as intimate as sexuality, have a way of reducing humanity to faceless abstractions. In gathering material for this week's cover story on the sexual activities and attitudes of American teenagers, we concentrated on people rather than printouts. Our correspondents interviewed parents, school counselors and behaviorists, but the most fascinating stuff came, of course, from the scores of youngsters with whom our reporters talked...
...common complainer feels the need for a champion is a demonstration that he feels ineffectual as an individual. When he feels like griping, the average American faces an adversary that the framers of the Constitution did not envision. It is the burgeoning mass society, a creature with a remorseless, faceless, self-declared efficiency that intimidates many Americans and renders them silent when they should be talking louder. Too many people still doubt that complaining will do any good. Those ultimately responsible for this state of affairs seem baffling and remote. Is anybody listening when an individual-as distinct from...
...times if repressed. Above all, complaining may be important to the American spirit. The republic was founded on the principle that the common man can be heard. Lack of faith in complaint has something to do with loss of faith in justice under law, in equal treatment for the faceless man. To give up on complaint is to give in to the feeling that the distant and impersonal state or corporation has taken away a bit of the American Dream. Every complaining man or woman is reasserting that value - the refusal to accept what is given from above, a reassertion...
Odious. About La Tour's life and character, very little is known. The man is faceless-the more so, because he left no known self-portrait; it is just possible that the quick-eyed, copper-haired young cheat at the right in The Cardsharp with the Ace of Diamonds may be La Tour himself. But his life is mostly conjecture, strung between a few documentary signposts. He was born in 1593, at Vic, a town in the duchy of Lorraine. At some time between 1610 and 1616, he is assumed to have gone to Italy and worked in Rome...
...massive wall in the rear, which opens to varying widths to allow the entrance of people or light. Place is indicated by a few pieces of furniture or props--notably a huge suspended silver eagle, symbol of Roman military; and a marvelous sculptured group of three draped and faceless figures, which adorns Brutus's garden...