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...July 1, Denmark will become the first state in modern history to abolish every legal sanction against pornography for adults. That milestone became official last week when the Danish Folketing overwhelmingly approved the necessary legislation. In fact, by deliberately not enforcing the laws still on its books, the Danish government had already achieved that distinction for Denmark -and had become as well the first signatory ever to resign from the Geneva convention on obscene literature.* For the past several months, any Dane over 16 has been able to indulge his appetite for pornography to his limit-in books, films...
...Japan's $1,100). China's recent Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the upheaval it caused may put domestic recovery ahead of foreign adventure for some time to come. Even before the Cultural Revolution, China was too weak in air, sea and industrial power to sustain a modern war much beyond its borders. However absurd it may seem to Americans, the Chi nese regard their actions in Korea and Viet Nam as defensive, and those in Tibet and India as attempts to regain territory that all Chinese (including the exiled Nationalists) have long claimed...
Welfare administrators are frequently described as impersonal bureaucrats with no sensitivity to the personal needs of their clients. Welfare recipients are sometimes categorized as underprivileged persons who lack the intellectual or social skills to accommodate to modern urban life. It is not always thus...
Temple Fielding has been called "a modern Baedeker." The description fits only in the sense that Karl Baedeker dominated the guidebook field during the mid-1800s, just as Fielding does today. For kings and governments may err,/ But never Mr. Baedeker, wrote Poet A. P. Herbert. Stolid and scholarly, an indefatigable wanderer and meticulous researcher, Baedeker was the first guidebook writer to rate hotels and restaurants with a star system (similar to that employed by France's Michelin guides today); he was also a culture demon who directed his readers to every landmark and royal pigeon roost...
Virginia Woolf once wrote that after reading certain novels she felt as if she were expected to write out a check. Such sermonettes, with their demand for moral reparations for evil deeds of the past, infest the modern theater. If one were really to believe Hochhuth (The Deputy), Weiss (The Investigation) and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy), one would conclude that the playgoer is responsible for every human crime and flaw since Adam ate the apple. The latest playwright to join this tiresome mea culpa crew is Arthur Kopit. His play Indians argues that Americans were once beastly...