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...think the film's only hope is experimental cinema," he says. "The whole commercial cinema of neoreality is fundamentally pornographic and does not contribute to one's soul. It is not sensitive. The cinema needs people of private vision. We are living in an avalanche of entertainment fallout, and how does one survive when bombarded by clumsy ideas? The film should be in the hands of poets rather than just slick, literate stylists...
...feeling about SANE are particularly strong: "What's the use of advising parents about ordinary diseases when the overwhelming danger is annihilation, fallout and the damage caused by the cold war psychology?" He went on to cite clinical studies of this damage in children. It is a characteristic of Dr. Spock that he states his ideas directly and simply, but is always able to back them up. Someone commented on this ability...
President Charles de Gaulle last week detonated a political bomb that scattered fallout from the Formosa Strait to Washington's Foggy Bottom. The blockbuster: France will "soon" recognize Red China...
...Vilma R. Hunt worked with polonium,* one of the rarest of the naturally occurring elements and until recently one of the hardest to detect. Many radioactive elements are found in tobacco leaves, as in all vegetation; they occur naturally and have nothing to do with man-made fallout, and they have been exonerated as causes of lung cancer. Polonium is different, the Harvard researchers reported in Science, because it vaporizes at a mere 500° C., far below the 800° temperature of a burning cigarette...
Polonium, the researchers maintain, occurs naturally in the tobacco leaf, since it is absorbed through the roots of all green plants from the soil. It is also absorbed to a lesser degree from "natural fallout" in the atmosphere...