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Students of South Africa's English-language universities are planning a national campaign to oppose the government's harsh new measures against conscientious objectors to the draft...
Whatever merits Kissinger's individual proposals have, his overall scheme to halt the strategic arms race assumes that negotiations with the Soviets are possible. However, Ronald Reagan is making mutual talks impossible with his harsh rhetoric and hard line. The President would do well to remember that when international relations are approached in terms of absolutes, such as good and evil, discussion and compromise become dead concepts...
Having asserted that in Israel "the moral preoccupation gives a special pathos and nobility to life," Eban concludes with a ringing affirmation of Israel's democratic integrity. Its spirit is embodied, he believes, in the commission's conviction that "a harsh truth is more salutary than a smooth evasion." That same belief seems to underlie Eban's own account...
...personality to Baby (now a college freshman) marks a transition. From that point the play becomes the very personal struggle of Baby to escape his parents' nightmare. For the audience, the switch from observing objects labeled "Mother." Father," and "Baby" to watching a real person in obvious pain is harsh, a switch in genre rather than mood. Although there are several good laughts after the transition, the play is no longer a comedy. The revolting nature of the young man's situation is too convincing to be amusing...
...more interestingly, the film avoids a moralistic tone by showing how the grease and leather can serve as an ironical security blanket. In addition to providing release from harsh home life and bleaker prospects, being a greaser safeguards the characters against further pain. When Ponyboy falls for a pretty soc, she encourages him for a while but then admonishes. "If I see you in school, and don't say hello, don't take it personally." Those incidents, coupled with the tragedy which befalls a greaser-turned-Good Samaritan, show why the greaser alliance can become a useful shield...