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There might as well be a magazine called Playgun to offer forthright celebration of America's steamy relationship with firearms. Such a publication might eliminate the need to justify all that noisy discharge of lead at tin cans, clay pigeons and passing cars that is so dyed-ih-the-Dacron American. There might even be a centerfold featuring the latest model that has come to the big city for the exciting night life-but ultimately, of course, would like to settle down as a policeman's side...
...days later Agnew held a televised press conference in which he answered tough questions in a forthright manner. The performance won praise even from Agnew's critics...
...would be pleasant to report that Hellman writes her memoirs in the same forthright, energetic fashion as she apparently lived her life. Alas, not so. Four years ago, she published a quirky, episodic volume called An Unfinished Woman. Her new book covers different material in the form of portraits of people whom she loved at one time or other, plus a chapter about life in the theater and an anomalous, charming piece about a snapping turtle...
Decrying today's omnipresent pornography as "sly," the speaker at the American Booksellers Association convention in Los Angeles said he preferred obscenity because it is more "forthright." In fact, "pornography is killing sex." Not too surprising remarks from an octogenarian, except that the speaker happened to be Henry Miller, the granddaddy of the erotic novel (Tropic of Cancer). Skinflick Star Linda Lovelace, a fellow author (at 22 she has already written her autobiography) disagreed: "Sex was dead and films like Deep Throat are bringing it back to life...
...Fellows seem to have forgotten the discussion which took place during the Mass Hall takeover. We, the students and faculty concerned about Harvard's posture, took it on faith that Harvard would strive to become a responsible, morally forthright shareholder. You were credited in this newspaper with this change in the University's image. That faith has been violated, and the credit to you was premature. To request an advisory committee, thus encouraging management to take interests other than profit into account would have been a minimal step for a socially responsible shareholder; asking for simple disclosure of information...