Word: givens
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Tuesday, October 7 FROM HERE TO THE SEVENTIES (NBC, 8:30-1 1 p.m.). The problems of today (race, environment, hunger, overpopulation) and the concerns of the future (sexual permissiveness, space, today's youth grown up) are given serious consideration by twelve top news commentators, including John Chancellor, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edwin Newman, Barbara Walters, Elie Abel, Aline Saarinen. Actor Paul Newman is the viewer's guide through the thicket of subjects...
...city America. That outrage is the administration of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay, which, they feel, has ignored them in its undue preoccupation with the city's blacks and poor. Lindsay liberals, by and large, are not merely for racial equality; they believe that society's stepchildren must be given extra helpings of aid to repair the damage of past mistreatment. There is a personal edge to the bitterness of Procaccino's followers, for Lindsay seems to belong to a world that his detractors say they can never enter ? the world of Manhattan's glittering East Side, of discotheques...
What it comes down to is that we should act in a way consistent with the values of our existence in a given moment or a given situation. That is, we should try to fight the end by trying to mitigate the bad effects it has on our daily lives. We should not resist the idea that the world is going to end because that is going to happen and soon. But until it's over we should fight it- try to ban the bomb, CBW, DDT, and the SST- because the values of our existence are structured that...
...source close to Curtis said yesterday that "SDS reserved the hall for the meeting, and SDS is held responsible for the conduct at it. The University calls them all SDS." The administration has given B. U. SDS a $250 bill for the damage done Friday...
BASICALLY, I'm pretty apolitical. Given a choice between polities and art, I prefer my art unsullied. So, why ain't this a drama review you ask, Because I began last Sunday by reading the Times' "The Week in Review," which predicted that the nation would stumble into yet another cataclysm sometime this fall. Like by October 15, and certainly by the November march on Washington that is bound to follow. Poor Richard is likely to feel quite threatened, as he did at last week's news conference where he said that Senator Goodell's plan...