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...such elegant despair as that expressed by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing of France: "The present world crisis . . . is not just a passing perturbation but in reality represents a permanent change. If we examine the major graphic curves that are drawn for the future by the phenomena of our times, you see that all of these curves lead to catastrophe...
...documentation, "This is the inevitable peril for anyone who seeks to discuss the world through the medium of his or her own senses"--requires some kind of evidence to support theories. True, Freud may not have had statistics, but at least his contributions were not descriptions of general social phenomena, and his work was based on personal exploration of his field. If no social theorists offered evidence to support their ideas, then the only thing which could persuade anyone would be emotions--which, in the long run, means the only argument would be force, since no one can back down...
...REAL FAILURE of Liberal Parents, Radical Children lies in Decter's unwillingness to stand away from the phenomena she is describing. She may wish to describe the world through the medium of her senses, but she seems to have sensed only half the problem. Because she offers no concrete evidence, one can't argue with her; but for the same reason, her book doesn't resolve anything. She ignores too many other possible factors to give a convincing description of why the generation gap occurred, and is too biased to give a viable alternative. Liberal Parents, Radical Children may offer...
Partly this is due to a shrewd adaptation. Peter Benchley's novel spent too much time on dry land, plodding around Irving Wallace country, reinvestigating such tired phenomena as the uneasy marriage, the adulterous wife, the snaky seducer. In the movie, most of this lallygagging is eliminated. Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider) must still fight the town's mayor, who is fearful that closing the beaches after the first shark attacks will ruin his resort's economy. He still joins forces with Quint, the professional shark killer (Robert Shaw, employing an ornate accent of indeterminate origin...
...contemporary fashion earned his books and articles a wide following; in a fire in his London apartment. Laver's witty analyses of the relationship of style to social trends sometimes led to some imaginative conclusions. "The disappearance of corsets," he once wrote, "is always accompanied by two related phenomena-promiscuity and an inflated currency. No corsets, bad money and general moral laxity...