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...Which brings us precisely to the point. As long as pornography must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best, besides titillate, is educate. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex, pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
...Bunting said that the issue of merger with Harvard, which President Pusey has reportedly called a prerequisite for coed housing, was not discussed Monday. The only official connection between Harvard and Radcliffe is an agreement that Harvard will instruct Radcliffe students for 90 per cent of the $2000 tuition per student...
Bertolt Brecht had a touching Teutonic faith in the power of the blow to instruct. Almost all his dramas are displays of belligerent didacticism. The stage was his prize ring. The audience was his sparring partner. There he was-"poor B.B.," as he always liked to think of himself-lashing out with a bruising ideological left to the midriff, jolting the playgoer with some brisk truism...
...often displayed his knack with the wenches. In the process, Miss Yakutis makes a charming transition from country lady to lusty serving woman. Either way, she's a maid who's real talent lies in raising her eyebrows at just the right moment. Perhaps, she could instruct Mr. Etstein...
...Tito's old guerrilla system has been unobtrusively infused with new life. Groups of young men disappear from their villages for a few days into the mountains, where old partisans and army experts show them the location of arms caches, teach them how to use the weapons and instruct them in the use of radio transmitters. In addition, thousands of workers are being organized into irregular militia at their plants. All told, the Yugoslavs could probably put about one million men into their rugged, forbidding hills to harass any invader with guerrilla tactics...