Word: notional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Each week in his office Bender plays through ten to 15 new albums and samples another 20 or 30. (When TIME'S book reviewers in adjacent rooms complained that words and music did not mix, his office was soundproofed.) Despite his own credentials, Bender rejects the notion that critics should be performers too. "I've never been one of those who believed you have to play as well as Rubinstein to evaluate Rubinstein's performance," he says. "A critic should know how music is made and be well schooled in its fundamentals. Beyond that, he reacts...
Kung Fu. The basic band numbers 21 homosexuals, including two lesbians who are reputedly the toughest hombres in the lot. Besides their goal of halting the attacks, the Lavender Panthers want to gainsay the popular notion that all homosexuals are "sissies, cowards and pansies" who will do nothing when attacked. All of the Panthers know judo, karate, Kung Fu or plain old alley fighting. For gays without defensive skills, the Panthers hold training sessions with instruction from a judo brown belt and a karate expert. Although Ray has a working arrangement with Elliot Blackstone, the police community relations officer...
Howard Hawks's El Dorado is, on the other hand, a classic Western. It has simple values, recognizable goods and evils, as well as the heroically American notion of self-reliance and the personal code of justice. You have John Wayne's moral obligation to the McDonald family after he accidentally kills a son: his resurrection of alcoholic sheriff Robert Mitchum as well as his instinctive refusal to work for the land barons, which leads to a moral decision to work against them. What's fascinating is Hawks's dissociation from his contemporary environment. El Dorado, simple to the point...
...detective, and the media barons have improved on standard fare, by making their detective overweight, leisurely, and in no particular need of the work. There is much Philip Marlowe in what remains, though. Frank Cannon is direct, dry and witty. He also holds on to the Marlowe notion of moral involvement. His own material comfort underscores his morality. He believes in himself as a reasonably legit Good Samaritan...
Worse is to come, she predicts. The current penal-reformist notion of group therapy may be "withering on the vine," but the behaviorists are about to bloom. A $13.5 million Behavioral Research Center is due to open near Butner, N.C., early in 1974. Articles with triumphant titles like "Criminals Can Be Brain washed−Now&" are appearing. In the spirit of 1984, solitary confinement is referred to by some prisons as "the Adjustment Center," and ordinary cells are called "Behavior Modification Units." Beating is known as "Aversion Therapy." Upjohn and Parke-Davis maintain $500,000 worth of laboratories with...