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...second story, whose "What if?" begins at the bottom of Loch Ness, is hardly more than a vehicle for an affectionate Highlands scene-and-character sketchbook. But the Hoyle stories are the playthings of genius. Because they carry around no portentous sociological baggage, the Hoyles are all the more effective at the classical task of science fiction, which is to satirize grotesque social reality in the mirror of scientific possibility. More than that, the tales have that rarest of qualities in fiction, science or otherwise: gaiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cautionary Gaieties | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

...most issues. Senator McGovern has exhibited about as much stick-to-itive-ness as Brand X denture adhesive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1972 | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...believe you can get from the Democratic Par ty what you can get from the Republican Party." Republican literature is al ready pointing out to blacks that, among other things, the Nixon Administration has 1) doubled federal grants to primarily black colleges, 2) tripled federal busi ness loans to blacks and 3) increased the funds for civil rights enforcement from $75 million to $602 million. For all that, the Republicans will be content if their share of the black vote rises from 12% in 1968 to 20% this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Advantage to the Incumbent | 7/10/1972 | See Source »

Despite the fuzziness and fumblings, Fritz the Cat brings Crumb's figures to the screen in most of their full lewd-ness--which is finally why you pay your roll of nickels Th-th-that's all...Fucks...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fritz Don't Profess Any Graces | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

...truth with irreverence and biting wit, because it never took its eye off the truth because of a new policy or a new leader, and most of all because it reflected Stone's own gentle, optimistic belief in the American Constitution and the American people. Throughout the repressive ness of the Fifties, the slick doublethink of the New Frontier, the genocidal madness in Indochina and the ghetto, Stone has never ceased to point out that the American spirit did not demand war and orthodoxy, and has never despaired that freedom and justice are possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: I.F. Stone's (Bi) Weekly | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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