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...SUDDEN interest? Why has science fiction, after the long "ghetto years, suddenly been embraced by academics and publishing companies alike? Why are the young especially fascinated with the alternative worlds portrayed in the pages of Asimov. Herbert and Heinlein? Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is a collection of fifteen essays that focuses on some of these questions and tries to provide answers. The authors of the short pieces are drawn from the top ranks of science fiction writing: Frank Herbert, Frederik Pohl, Alan E. Nourse, Poul Anderson and Jack Williamson. They bring their considerable talents to bear on the issues...
...helping the oppressed obtain their rights as the main reason for their following the road to the courts; rather, they say they are trying to find some certainty in an uncertain future. Nor do the swelling ranks of pre-meds talk so loudly about opening a clinic in a ghetto neighborhood and improving health care for the poor, or starting a practice in a rural community without a doctor, most would rather keep with the trend and stay in the more lucrative urban and suburban areas...
...solution to her problems. But Writer Getchell's plot line has plenty of unmarked curves in it, and it twists past a curiously mixed group of characters who hitch briefly onto Alice's odyssey. Director Scorsese, having proved adept with the claustrophobia of a big-city ghetto in Mean Streets, demonstrates an ability to discover a similar but more comic oppressiveness behind the fagades of the wide-open streets of the Southwest. He leaves plenty of room for quirky tangents to develop as the film proceeds on its wayward course...
...Henry Fairlie, the British journalist who gave us the word "Establishment" as used in its modern capitalized sense, expanis the manipulation of language by politics without resorting to platitudes. Instead he concretely traces the changes in meaning words undergo as they are drafted into service by politicians and journalists. "Ghetto," for instance, in retaining its original sense of the legal restriction of a group to a quarter of a city, reinforces a group's sense of isolation when attached to a minority like blacks, even though they are not subject to any legal restrictions. The word "ethnics," as another example...
...pure word, defined by those who KNOW, rules. That explains Newman's complaints about the deleterious effect of the '60s; that explains Schlesinger's admiration for the reason and clarity that abounded in the predemocratic era of the Founding Fathers; that explains Fairlie's protest against words like "ghetto" and "minority," which he claims isolate groups in society. Purity of speech and word is possible only when all groups in society share equally in the national wealth. Where some groups receive an unjust share, the oppressed will naturally raise their fists angrilly and shout words--jumbled, incoherent, even ungrammatical...