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...social science curriculum that B. Irven DeVore, professor of Anthropology, and two colleagues provided the research for has come under attack in Congress for allegedly teaching ten-year-olds such concepts as adultery, bestiality, incest and murder...

Author: By Judith Kogan, | Title: Congressmen Attack Program That DeVore Helped Develop | 4/8/1975 | See Source »

...comes The Savage Is Loose, which might most charitably be described as a fearless refutation of social Darwinism. The plot is Swiss Family Robinson with incest. John (Scott) and Maida (Trish Van Devere) are husband and wife who have been shipwrecked for seven years along a remote coast line. Their son David (Lee H. Montgomery) takes to the lovely surroundings with natural exuberance. He hunts and fishes, all under the tutelage of his father, while his mother fills his ears with memories of civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unnatural Acts | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...Malle's Lacombe, Lucien is among the best things to come out of this groundswell of interest in the war years, and one of the best films of recent years by any standard. Malle's recent film Murmur of the Heart, was an uncannily successful film about adolescence and incest, a comedy of sexual manners. Lacombe, Lucien is an unlikely sequel, as morally provocative a film about the question of social and individual guilt as has ever been made. The bare bones of the story go something like this: In June, 1944, a dispossessed young peasant of southwestern France drifts...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Resistance, Rebellion and Death | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

...been up all night trying to arrive at this decision. I'm leaving for Europe." Dick did not deny she might be Mrs. B. No. 3. But, he said, "I've known her since she was five years old, so it would seem like incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 8, 1974 | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...Burgess novel is frequently an embarrassment of riches, a kind of conspicuous consumption of exotic plot thickeners, linguistic games, disturbing tragicomedy, Manichaean trampoline acts and Christian and mythological symbolism. Thematically speaking, anything goes-as Burgess demonstrated three years ago in MF, a novel of contemporary incest based on an Algonquin Indian myth. In his latest offering, Napoleon Symphony, the author, who is also a serious composer, has reached for everything from kazoos to pipe organs. The result is a mock epic about the career of Napoleon Bonaparte that sometimes reads like Dickens, sometimes like Tennyson and Wordsworth, with an occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Illusions | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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