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...have done. Most of them have been able to understand and accept the importance of sex education but a few unthinking students and parents have always been threatened by the course content and managed to influence public school administrators to apply pressures to stop me. But I persist. Such articles as yours are a great help...
Then why does the custom of August vacations persist? Partly it is sheer habit, but partly also the crush begins with the large industries, whose managers claim that only by shutting down altogether can major maintenance be done and everyone be given a holiday without an unacceptable slowdown of the assembly lines. After the factories close, a whole chain of related businesses follows suit. Then the food, clothing and other industries schedule their vacations for the "dead" period. Even so, Europeans seem in no hurry to change. When Italian workers were recently polled on their vacation preferences, almost 80% said...
...subject of women, Jews and blacks. As internal aliens to his mind-"strangers"-they aroused his fear and consequently his hate. But after making Shakespeare out to be a conscious bigot, Fiedler argues that Shakespeare, quite unconsciously, had delved into "stereotypes and myths, impulses and attitudes" that "still persist in the dark corners of our hearts, the dim periphery of our dreams." So Shakespeare is both guilty and not guilty, a peculiar ambivalence that unsettles the whole book...
...Secretary Ron Ziegler as saying that the President was preparing to leave for Moscow. After that, the Soviet press made it seem like a great achievement for Russia to press on with the summit despite "the reactionary forces," as Izvestia put it, that were seeking "to undermine peace." Rumors persist in the West that the fix is in, and that Nixon and the Russians have made a secret deal on Viet Nam -such as an agreement to deactivate the mines while the President is in Moscow. U.S. officials denied that there was any arrangement...
...costs are high. One Western calculation places the price of a food basket filled with 28 standard items at $56 in Moscow compared with $33 in New York, $48 in Munich, and $38 in London. In addition to prohibitively high prices, periodic shortages of meat, vegetables and fruits still persist throughout much of the Soviet Union. Because of planning snags and distribution muddles, the situation is much the same in clothing, shoes, household appliances and furnishings...