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...Save Lives. Finally, at week's end, he became the first presidential candidate to outline a step-by-step plan for peace in Viet Nam. The scheme was forthright and eminently reasonable, if perhaps too optimistic about what could be expected from the Communists. It at least gave the voters a clear insight into the candidate's thoughts on the issue. The plan's four stages...
...Certain treatments of homosexuality, of course, are as old to movies as the custard pie. Effeminacy always brought out the vitriolic best in comedians, particularly in pre-code days. Both W. C. Fields and Chaplin made the dandified sissy a prime object of putdowns and pratfalls. But a serious, forthright approach to sexual inversion was slow to appear. When Hollywood first filmed Lillian Hellman's The Children's Hour in 1929, fear of censorship forced Director William Wyler to substitute an innocent boy-meets-girl plot for the original lesbian relationship. When Billy Wilder made The Lost Weekend...
...made 2,721 referrals altogether and visited 2,644 homes at least once. Cambridge Visiting Nurses reaches about 200 parental cases a year from Cambridge City Hospital and is referred prenatal cases from Boston Lying In's Clinic. The executive director made a strong statement in favor of a forthright approach to birth control. Even in cases not specifically prenatal (about 800), the visiting nurse will initiate discussion on contraceptive if appropriate. She mentioned the obstacle posed by some Catholic doctors who refuse to prescribe effective methods. She was the first of my many interviewees to concern herself with...
...women. The possibility of serving unmarried women may not have occurred to most respondents and if it had, more women would have favored separate policies for married and unmarried. The (3 to 1) results are highly encouraging and belie the myth of opposition among laymen to a liberal and forthright approach to birth control. In fact it seems that the professional policy-making middle class is acting neither in the spirit of the church as personified by Cardinal Cushing's ecumenicism, nor in accord with public opinon; rather it is upholding in the name of "prevailing sentiment" mythical standards that...
...half percent compounded every quarter." The Biblical woman accused of adultery would be safe in Tarbox; here no stones are thrown, only envious glances. With no heat left in the Protestant American crucible, the comfortable couples of Tarbox have reached out for another kind of warmth. Updike is forthright about his purpose. "There's a lot of dry talk around about love and sex being somehow the new ground of our morality," he said recently. "I thought I should show the ground and ask, is it entirely to be wished...