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...John Taylor, in fact, professes to fear that sex will become so much fun that people will want to give up practically all nonsexual activities. Author Gordon Rattray Taylor predicts that it may become possible to "buy desire," or switch it on or off at will; the playboy might opt for continuous excitement and the astronaut for freedom from sexual urges during space flight...
Richard Zorza '71, a member of the committee, said, "We felt YAF [Young Americans for Freedom] should not be allowed to co-opt the free speech issue, which can't be separated from...
...groups, wondering why they haven't been pulled together by common opposition to the war. His reading of the country is optimistic, for he suggests a widespread sentiment for peace. In fear and disillusionment, he explains. Americans are reaching out for symbols: laborers take the flag while students opt for change, and neither group understands the other. "Are the walls between these groups real or are they illusory?" he asks. "They are real in the sense that they exist. They are illusory in the sense that they have no reason to exist...
...writing for the piano is flamboyant, excitingly splashy but tamed by good taste. The expertise of his orchestral writing is remarkable-bold blocks of brass sound, piquant wisps of woodwind, supple simplicity in the strings. Perhaps the most important thing about his composition is that he has dared to opt for tradition over "now" chic: the idiom is tonal and reflects the post-romantic passions of the early 20th century...
...fight the traditional characterization by being anti-traditional: they put Jesus (rather uncertainly) into the role of a mass-culture hero, make Judas a sort of cautious road-manager, cast Mary Magdalene as a groupie in love with Christ, and Simon Zelotes as a politico who wants to co-opt Christ into a revolution against the Roman occupation. The point of all this is to make it clear by analogy that Jesus was a man, a man who had worries and faults, who had to deal with the same problems all men have to deal with, and who offered...