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Case in Point. Lest people think that he is promoting pop pornography Geis explains solemnly that "there's quite a distinction between pornography and erotic literature. We are not publishing a string of sexual scenes for the sake of titillation." For what other purpose then? Says Geis: "There is a perfectly legitimate public curiosity about what goes on behind the scenes." Not that people really find out what goes on in the Geis version of the roman è clef. The formula does not require that the novel be based even loosely on truth or, for that matter, on gossip...
...Course. Both men, of course, protest that they are not candidates. Last week Rockefeller wrote to groups in New Hampshire and New York asking them to end their efforts to draft him lest they prove "divisive and destructive" to the party. "I just don't have the ambition or the need or inner drive-or whatever the word is- to get in again," he has said. But it was once said of Thomas E. Dewey that "the only cure for presidentitis is embalming fluid," and Rocky has been waging a noncampaign that will leave him in a strong position...
...possible that the Administration is purposely playing its cards close to the vest. It may want to keep the outline of its negotiating position secret lest China put pressure on Hanoi to become more militant in her demands...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...
...fragile bauble-a script by Writer Ustinov." By way of making his point, Ustinov is looking on as his new play, Halfway Up the Tree, opens this season in five productions in four countries in three languages-and he won't have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France to listen in on his own translation, and maybe catch the productions in Berlin and Diisseldorf for a change of pace...