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...Lately I've begun to feel a bottomless fright") that have much less adolescent intensity than a kind of brilliantined adult sentimentality. Where the Lilies Bloom was made as a G-rated family movie, which is the probable reason- though hardly a good excuse- for avoiding the harsher, more pressing realities of the situation the movie portrays. It wants to be liked for its good intentions alone...
...computer printouts which are designed to help predict how types of people from the particular community might be expected to react as jurors. There are, says Schulman, significant regional differences. In Harrisburg, polling indicated that women would be more friendly to the defense than men. They promised to be harsher in Gainesville, and the same as men in St. Paul. Following their predictive profiles, the defense looked in Harrisburg for working-class Lutherans, Roman Catholics and Brethren, a pacifist sect in the area. In Gainesville, defense lawyers tried to choose high-status Episcopal and Presbyterian professionals...
...book is divided into two parts: in the first, Long painstakingly molds reams of statistics into a moving but never heavy-handed description of the French transformation of rural Vietnam. In Part II, he presents his own translations of articles and stories written by Vietnamese observers of the new, harsher life that existed in the countryside under the French. The stories are numbing: in one, a peasant woman must sell her seven-year-old daughter to pay her taxes. In them rural Vietnam speaks, and gives life to the statistics...
...that women, when they are in power, are much harsher than men ... You're schemers, you're evil. Every one of you." The misogynist? Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 54, in an interview with idol-smashing Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci published in the New Republic. Fallaci, whose belt already holds the scalps of Henry Kissinger, Willy Brandt and Nguyen Van Thieu, scored again with the revelation that the Shah is not, after all, a ladies' man. What prompted His Sublime Highness's anger, however, was something quite simple. Fallaci had asked...
...Scoop") Jackson of Washington and by the President as a message that "left very little to the imagination as to what he intended." The note was kept secret, but TIME has learned that, instead of beginning in the usual diplomatic salutation "Dear Mr. President," it started out with a harsher "Mr. Nixon." It also threatened the "destruction of the state of Israel" by Soviet forces if Israel did not stop violating the cease-fire (see THE WORLD). One member of the Johnson Administration recalled that the Russians made similarly harsh threats toward the end of the 1967 Arab-Israeli...