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...afraid I must persist in my objection to your use of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities' tapes. I realize my attitude may place me in the position of those bureaucrats we both dislike, but it is a carefully considered attitude and thus one I feel obliged to maintain...
...repress the personality. "The tyrant of individualism has forever been put down," boasted a 19th century Utopia called The Crystal Button. In a 1903 Utopian novel, Limanora, everyone is deliberately made to work too hard to have time to think about himself or his desires. Those who persist in the glorification of sensory pleasures are exiled to an island called Kloriole, which, perhaps not incidentally, sounds like a detergent. Today, it would doubtless be a very crowded island...
That conviction of badness may persist into adulthood as a pervasive sense of worthlessness, destroying relationships with others...
...karate class has a special problem: the students' yarmulkes keep falling off. But the pupils persist. Thirty of them have come from all parts of the city to the gym of the Williamsburg Young Men's Hebrew Association, once a breeding ground for that special brand of New York basketball played by short, quick young men. Now the basketball players are at one end of the gym; at the other is the white-robed karate class arranged in five rows of six abreast. Black Belt Teacher Alex Sternberg stalks the rows, suddenly lashing out in instructive attempts...
Pink Ribbon. The council points out that, even in this permissive age, some bizarre misconceptions about contraception persist. "One woman thought she'd avoid getting pregnant by jumping up and down after intercourse," the leaflet notes. "Others believe that they won't get pregnant if they stand up during intercourse." As a result, 120,000 unwanted babies are born each year in Britain; in 1969, one bride in five was pregnant at the time of her marriage. That point is amply illustrated in the leaflet by a picture showing a very pregnant young woman in a white wedding...