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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. Alan Alda is an "author" (meaning book clerk) and Diana Sands a "model" (meaning prostitute) in this ironic version of the mating game.
Sir: The young men fighting in Viet Nam, regardless of their formal education, know more about life, death and the real meaning of freedom than do demonstrators on any campus. These men in Viet Nam are America.
What galls the Gauls, of course, is the recent triumph of English. Time was when French was the tongue of "international"-meaning Continental-diplomacy. The 20th century's two world wars, however, helped shift international politics to a global arena, and the emergence since of dozens of independent powers...
WHO are they? These Americans parading about with placards and chanting: "Hey, hey, L.B.J.! How many kids did you kill today?" These burning-eyed youths who set fire to their draft cards and urge others to do the same? These interpositionists who stand on railroad tracks to block U.S. troop...
But aside from his accent and the numerous homey aphorisms scattered through his speech ("You got to get people together so they don't spit at each other on the sidewalk"), Charles Morgan Jr. doesn't sound like a Southern sheriff. First, he doesn't know the meaning of the...