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...other. The half-day drill brings marked improvement: "retention" rates in one group of salesmen (notoriously poor listeners) rose from 20% to 84% after the course. Jarman was so enthusiastic about the program that he ordered the sessions for 800 other Genesco staffers. "The listening course sharpens a latent skill," says General Electric Personnel Consultant Dr. G. Roy Fugal. "It's like a game of golf. You have to practice...
...find it encouraging that the conscience of today's youth is expanding, that we are concerned with making our country worthy of being loved. Many good Americans do not find it necessary to constantly reaffirm their loyalty, but patriotism is latent in most of us today-even those who demonstrate their dissent so adamantly. CHASE WEBB San Francisco...
Harris is not alone in abnormality. Brando, it develops, is a latent homosexual. The unknowing object of his love is a virginal enlisted man who, in turn, is shyly in love with Taylor. Nightly, as Brando wanders outside, the soldier enters his house, steals up to Taylor's bedroom and watches her snooze until dawn; then the tame voyeur flees back to the barracks...
...film about latent homosexuality, adultery, and various forms of human perversion, Reflections in a Golden Eye moves pretty slowly. John Huston's latest offering glides languidly through a series of loosely-tied scenes, punctuated by flashes of nudity (male and female) and spasms of sudden violence. The movie's general torpor is heightened by someone's decision, presumably Huston's to shoot through a filter that allowed only forms of red to record properly. All other colors show up black and white but red all over. It is difficult to go through the film without idly wondering...
...Harry," a sadistic lesbian who, amid threats of murder, leads her partners round and round the couple, slapping and screaming at the victims. Without warning, the tormentors abruptly skitter out the door, never to return. By now, the real estate man's cowardice and his girl's latent nymphomania have surfaced. Shattered by the ordeal and its revelations, they cannot bear to talk to each other and end their affair...