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...Stooges are for kids, and whether you liked them or not you're liable to look back at them after fifteen years and see that shapes that fleshed out much of your consciousness when a glimmer of the world first stirred. The Stooges are pure slapstick--they pound each other and never draw blood, they communicate with a cuff and a twist of the ear, they love each other as they fight, like Nick and Nora Charles in The Thin Man. Getting up from the TV floors when you're five years old and trying to bash your sister with...
...novel My Petition for More Space. Hersey's microcosm of the world--New Haven. Connecticut--is so crowded that its inhabitants stand in line for everything and everything has its allotted time: a twenty minute wait for six minutes in the john, thirty minutes in line for fifteen at the breakfast table, a matter of hours at the Bureau of Petitions in order to ask for a change in one's life a different job, permission to have a child--and to be almost always refused One child is all a couple is allowed, and even that takes years...
...AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS in which the "American people voted only for "peace" candidates, the policy is still the same. And after fifteen years in which the American government spent $150 billion and in which 50,000 American men died in combat, the policy still does not fit the facts. Built into this policy, of course, is the assumption that Cambodia is "ours" to "lose." Moreover, the president said last week. "The policy of this country is to help those nations with military hardware--not U.S. military personnel--where the government and the people of a country want to protect their...
...Fifteen seconds later, Hogan picked up his second tally with a close-in shot, and at 11:34 Gauthier, alone in front of the net, gave Harvard a 6-1 lead after taking a Kevin Burke pass from deep in the corner...
...real" human relations, and because we've come to realize that body chemistry often is the effect, not the stimulus, of interpersonal conflict. But the theory is unappealing when it becomes a repetitive chant for the counter-culture rather than an assumption to be tested. Only in the past fifteen years have therapists like Gregory Bateson and R.D. Laing studied in detail the family environment of schizophrenics. In over 500 cases Laing found no schizophrenic whose disturbed communication was not shown to be a reaction to the disturbed and disturbing communication within his family...