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...Concorde may prove to be an environmental mistake and an economic disaster. But it may also prove to be relatively harmless and convenient, and a first step toward a new era in flight. The best way to decide whether it is a boon or a bane is to grant the Franco-British request for limited service...
Forman instead brewed up harmless-sounding potions, including one made of "sage, marjoram, elderbuds, ashbuds, berberis, liquorice, aniseed, aloes and juniper berries." He seems to have reassured people more than he treated them, and that was probably for the best, given the primitive state of medical science and the appalling maladies of the time. Confronted with a patient who "breeds worms in his nose of stinking sweet and venomous humor," Forman sensibly recommended a change in diet and frequent face washing...
...Kesey's book the reader was bludgeoned into taking McMurphy's side because the asylum doctors were insufferable authority-figures intent on sadistically enforcing their will on a group of harmless human beings too weak to resist them. The facts are changed in the movie, though you're still expected to side with McMurphy. The clinic seems relatively well-run, with no sadism apparent. Dr. Spivey, played by a real asylum shrink, is rather like a Harvard administrator in his comfortable chumminess, generous desire to do good and general inability to see how to do it. Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher...
...found your article on the body shops [Dec. 15] disheartening. It seems ludicrous for law enforcement officers to devote so much effort to cracking down on a harmless exercise that prostitutes and their clients have been pursuing for thousands of years. It would seem more sensible merely to tax these operations at a fairly high rate...
SENATE BILL NUMBER ONE, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, lies innocently right now in the friendly lair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It seems harmless enough--a much needed bill to "codify, revise and reform" the federal criminal laws. But this 735-page tome, once sprung on the American public, will do more to keep the people ignorant about what the government is doing than to seriously coordinate the confusing list of federal statutes...