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Usually, on these twenty-first century trips to distant planets, there is one guy who can account for everything up to a certain point. Then when even he becomes amazed the picture ends. "I don't believe it," he mutters, "it must be some strange force, probably..."On the Forbidden Planet, this character is Walter Pidgeon (Dr. Morbius), but the reason he, too, succumbs to fantasy is an understandable one: he simply cannot believe any Freudian theory...
...Forbidden Planet (M-G-M). In recent years, though many a Thing has landed on the movie screen, the Space it came from has always, all too obviously, been located between a scriptwriter's ears; and the science in the fiction has generally been of a sophomore sort that gives a loud wolf-whistle at the curvature of the universe. In this nifty interstellar meller, however, the gadgets are so much more glamorous than any girl could be that in many scenes the heroine is technologically unemployed. The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that...
...sorting clerk whose chief function is to refer patients to staff specialists. Restrictions on qualified generalists are strictest in large Eastern cities and include a complete shut-out in most teaching hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York State hospital staffs are off limits to generalists...
...Contraceptives. Aside from the temptation presented to Catholics to use forbidden methods of planning parenthood (a temptation reinforced by such factors as the high cost and close quarters of modern housing), contraception puts an extra strain on a union by disassociating sexual pleasure and responsibility in marriage, Father Thomas suggests. "We cannot simply assume that physical union restricted to mutual gratification produces the same stabilizing and unifying effects as normal intercourse...
This discontent with the Iron Curtain is shown by the considerable circulation in Russia of books, phonograph records, and other items supposedly forbidden. The black market thrives on such goods. Every Sunday morning on the Kuznetsky Most Street in Moscow, for instance, there is a black market in books. There it is easy to pick up copies of books in short supply, especially western ones in Russian translations, such as the works of Dickens. Other goods, like cloth and clothing, cars, and theater tickets can also be purchased through the black mahket with enough money...