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...America, insofar as student and black rebellions grow, Jews are in danger. Embattled America will probe sources. Marx, Franz Boas- Jewish prophet of egalitarian cultural anthropology (universalism kills anti-Semitism), Hoffman, Rubin, Dohrn, Rudd, Chomsky. Recent outcry against Brandeis University as radical nest. Jewish Defense League. Young Jews rediscovering Judaism and Jewishness. Racial inequality doctrine returning via Lorenz, Ardrey, others. Carleton Putnam thoughtfully exploring such matters in Race and Reason and Race and Reality...
...Insofar as stability in the Middle East is concerned, it will do little good to solve the plight of the Arab refugees if nothing is done to help the millions of Arab fellahin who live in conditions of poverty, disease and illiteracy even worse, in many cases, than that of the refugees in the camps. Poverty anywhere is deplorable, but in a region blessed with billions of dollars of oil, it is criminal. I can think of no more fitting and lasting memorial to Gamal Abdel Nasser [Oct. 12] than a massive aid plan to improve...
...specialist is supposed to sell it. Trouble is, the exchanges do not require a specialist to keep a stock from moving widely up or down. As the generally worded constitution of the New York Stock Exchange puts it, he must merely help moderate the price changes between each transaction "insofar as reasonably practicable...
...Cops aren't inherently pigs," Durk tells the students. "But insofar as some pigs become cops, it is because you won't do the job yourself." As he talks, Durk studies his audience in search of the toughest-minded do-gooders, "the kids who can break down the machismo factor in police departments and show that it's not unmanly to care and have compassion." He also points out that police salaries, though still low, are rising in some major cities. For example, Los Angeles rookies get $9,000, which is more than four times as much...
...impossible to tell what appealed to the judges at the Cannes Film Festival and prompted them to award the movie the Jury Prize. To foreign eyes, it may seem an accurate presentation of the American venacular which fascinates many French. It is particularly American insofar as it is a bogus excursion into social truth. Horovitz, who has given the director only the tiniest characterizations to build the movie on. As long as large film companies produce and sell movies such as this masquerading as honesty or confrontation, many opinions will remain romanticized, muddled, and as annoyingly cute as this film...