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...years ago, this place was a pigsty. Now the patients are eating family style." So saying, Ohio's Governor John J. Gilligan went back to his job: helping Cerebral Palsy Victim Jimmy Long with his exercises at the Orient State Institute near Columbus. Since he took office in 1971, Gilligan has made a special effort to improve the conditions of the hospitals in which the state's 23,000 mentally ill and retarded live. From funds raised by Gilligan's introduction of a state income tax in 1971, $900,000 has gone into a "humanization" program, ensuring...
Cukor juggles stock character types and familiar plot complications with playful expertise. Henry and Augusta, along with her lover Wordsworth, a fortune-telling black African, wind up on a mock spy adventure on the Orient Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ranson to Visconti (her wildly romantic first lover) held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all, Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. When she finally does deliver the ransom, she collapses hysterically in her now aged lover's arms only to find that...
...Cukor's playful digs at romanticism still haven't inured him to it. Over-fond of the past, he brings confused eyes to the present, and stretches the contrast between to ludicrous dimensions. On the Orient Express Henry smokes dope with a wealthy bluejeaned backpacking American girl. Her father is in the CIA, her boyfriend a pop artist, and she can talk of nothing but the fact that her period is late and whom among her countless bedmates could the culprit be? Then Henry sleeps with her. The girl is just a modern version of Aunt Augusta, but stripped...
...Aren't you tired of fighting? Doesn't the road seem long when you take small steps?" Mohammed Yusuf Najjar, better known as Abu Yusuf, faced these questions two months ago in an interview with L'Orient-Le Jour, the influential Beirut newspaper. Abu Yusuf, 44, replied that he did not expect his generation of Palestinians to defeat the Israelis. "We plant the seeds, and the others will reap the harvest," he said. "Most probably we'll all die, killed because we are confronting a fierce enemy. But the youth will replace...
...want to orient my work toward historical and humanistic studies, rather than survey research," he said. "And I hope that the Institute will become a lively intellectual center for this particular approach...