Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many Cape Kennedy engineers bring home the fail-safe attitudes necessary to their work. "These are intelligent, perfectionist males who are usually intolerant of the feelings of those around them," says Psychiatrist Burton Podnos, administrator of the local Mental Health Center. Absorbed all day in scientific precision, engineers are apt to accuse their wives of sloppy housekeeping if they find an unwashed coffee cup in the sink. It is hard for some of them to understand why there is not an effective system for toilet-training the baby...
Despite such shortcomings, Princes of the Renaissance offers modest rewards, as it could hardly fail to do considering the richness of the period. Even the statistics in such a book can be intriguing: the 800 mistresses of Niccolo d'Este, the Marquis of Ferrara (one cannot help wondering who counted them); the 2,000 oxen and 80,000 fowl reportedly consumed at the two-week wedding feast for Niccolo's son Leonello and Maria of Aragon; the 200 souls trampled to death in a traffic jam on Rome's Sant' Angelo bridge during the 1450 jubilee...
...seize buildings and throw out administrators, many a Senator or representative has arisen in his chamber, delivered a scathing speech against SDS members, and perhaps introduced a bill which would -- as two such proposals provide -- withdraw all Federal aid from any campus where disorders occur, or from colleges which fail to carry out research deemed important to the national security. At the same time, three Congressional committees have held lengthy hearings on student unrest...
Please note, I am not saying that the university should avoid political stands; I am not saying that the university can fail to restructure or to break its ties with what is most evil in America. Those are political arguments...
...Calcutta! not only offers the most nudity but the handsomest nudes on the New York stage, trim-muscled men and lovely girls. Why does it fail to stimulate eroticism? The answer is that no member of a theater audience is unaware of the rest of the audience, and this communal group consciousness inhibits erotic response. If it gets a minus on eroticism, Oh! Calcutta! gets two plusses for the laughter it evokes and its rousing celebration of the body beautiful...