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There is universal agreement that oral contraceptives are such potent drugs that they should be taken only under a doctor's supervision - and that some women should not take them at all (TIME, Jan. 26; March 9). How can women be alerted to these admitted facts without being scared off the Pill entirely...
...Force jet pilot but five years to train a plumber. George Meany's rationale for that: the plumber must learn a greater variety of skills (Meany is a plumber). If blacks pass the rigid written tests needed to enter the apprenticeship program, they often fail the commonly rigged oral exams. One egregious case is that of Anderson L. Dobbins, a black who tried for four years to get into a Cincinnati electricians' local. Finally, he was admitted-but only after a federal judge found him better qualified than most of the union's white members. Letting...
There seems to be little room for the self-mockery which has often characterized Negro humor or for the literary sense of irony that has dominated much of modern white poetry. But the black poets have a continuing oral tradition lacking in the more cerebral white English poetry. This tradition has been handed along from rural preachers to gospel singers to blues singers, to Langston Hughes, who dignified the street language of the blacks and read his poems wherever he could find an audience, even in bars. Today's black poets often chant their poetry in lofts, churches...
...written a book. Perhaps unavoidably, most of the material in it is culled from speeches, position papers, office research. Yet to Lindsay's credit the mark of his personal syntax, the idiosyncratic cadences of his oral editorial style, glottal-stop through its pages. Touch this book and you may not touch a man, but you will certainly hear him talking...
Like American jazz, the Hindustani music of India is improvisational. The raga is the mode or theme on which the performer improvises spontaneously, developing 95 per cent of the piece originally. It is an unwritten, oral tradition that has been handed down through the generations since about...