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...long run, however, this politicization of sex may be the way out. The blurry confounding of the sexes breeds a sexual frustration that is unnatural and well nigh intolerable. Here, in the need to resolve the tension born of this unhappy androgyny, lies the impulse that will push us, drive us toward a sexual redefinition. And given the politicization of sex, a re-evaluation of sexual identity means the re-evaluation of political identity. This is the only hope for either the Sexual Revolution or Women's Liberation--the only way either can begin anew...
...University Band should be immediately reorganized; the mass-meetings in the Union should begin now; there ought to be frequent processions of the College to the practice; and there should be cheering and singing of the right sort at practice and at every game. The cheering Saturday was well-nigh worthless.... "--Ed.) Monday, October...
...actions on the top-level decision-makers is certainly questionable, and the huge number of police on hand for Monday's protest seemed to indicate that the Administration is more concerned with controlling protesters than listening to their current grievances. Just as in the past, the "warmakers" remain well nigh impossible to confront, and the chief result of demonstrations is a deep sense of frustration and impotence...
...took a curly-haired young man in a Princeton hockey shirt to ignite the slow stating Boston Celtics last nigh, but when they finally got going, the fast-breaking Celts blew the New York Knickerbockers off the court in a torrid fourth quarter, to win their playoff game...
...Love is nigh-impossible in the "modern" Cornish village of Straw Dogs, a place certainly as tortured as Bergman's islands. The complexity of modern life is what obscures man's basic, irrational problems, and there is no way a man can test himself now on all levels--as Peckinpah feels necessary for any man's development. So Peckinpah looks at his modern characters cynically, finding them passionless and without realidentity, not liking their size or their traumas. But he keeps his romantic ideals in the background, revealing them in sudden peaceful moments, in the manner David shelters a queasy...