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...only on sex and finally revolts against sex completely, joining a commune of women who reject their sexual exploiters, seems fairly plausible. On the other hand, Decter cannot imagine that the revolt may have had an objective cause--widespread disillusionment with marriage as an institution, and the spread of freer sexual relations resulting from that disillusionment. Because she is interested only in the relationship between parent and child. Decter often avoids other issues: that the 60s might have been a time when the government was drafting young men to fight a war many considered immoral, and that throughout that...
...Chamber Players are in an enviable artistic position. Subsidized by the Harvard Summer School, they are freer than most groups from the demands of the box-office--instead of trotting out the usual warhorses, they are offering a fascinating assortment of twentieth century works, lesser known works by the great masters (the Beethoven Sextet, for example) and a weekly sampling from the varied Schumann literature. The Chamber Players have made air-conditioned Sanders Theater an oasis in the summer musical wasteland...
...nearly seven months, the Ford Administration has been calling for a revamping of the nation's inefficient federal regulatory system. Its argument is that freer markets and increased competition could lead to lower prices or better service in more than half a dozen heavily supervised industries, including airlines, railroads, trucking, natural gas, banks and utilities. White House free-marketeers have lambasted such alphabet agencies as the CAB, ice and FPC for acting as guardians of the businesses they are supposed to regulate. They have urged the creation of a national commission on regulatory reform, a sweeping proposal that...
...understand that some such changes--involving, for example, student-managed communal living--were discussed before Mather and Currier were built. If those proposals were again to come under consideration. I would be among those arguing strongly for them. I think students, to say nothing of tutors, should be much freer to run their own lives and establishments than they can be in the houses as presently constituted...
...suggests otherwise. Most of the world some time ago absorbed the long-overdue U.S. decision to cut its losses in Southeast Asia, after an enormous and tragic effort. Many of America's friends indeed were relieved, and still are, hoping that the U.S. will henceforth be freer to concentrate on other areas and problems. Confidence in America ultimately depends not on the aftermath of Viet Nam but on how firmly and wisely the U.S. acts elsewhere...