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...plays the sympathetic den mother to these kids barely out of their teens, and they respond, most of them, with patience and decorum. In assembling these chilling images, Spheeris has followed the music's dictum: start at the climax and run like hell. And in providing a punk primer, she has documented a troubling tendency in movies as well as in music-the triumph of aggression over involvement, movement over purpose, action over passion. Alas, nothing much else is going...
...through all manner of physical movement and facial gymnastics. Such matters, made widely familiar by pop sociology, anthropology and psychology, have become the stuff of common conversation. Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, like other books of this ilk, is mainly a primer in how to manipulate others by a cold-blooded control of nonverbal signals that occur commonly in the workaday world: for example, how executives signal their style and presumptions of power by the clothes they choose and the way they arrange their office furniture...
...other. So to plug their antismoking message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services decided on a role model: Actress Brooke Shields, 15 (Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon and the soon-to-be-released Endless Love). But before Brooke had a chance to give her peers a puffless primer, the proposed $68,000 federal campaign was extinguished. Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement certainly irritated the American Lung Association, which charged that the ads had gone up in smoke because the Government...
...Although he admits that professors often develop "methodologies" that get in the way of truly inspirational teaching. Leon Kirchner, Rosen Professor of Music and teacher of Harvard's only credited music performance course, argues. "I think that very talented musicians can use the University as a sort of pump primer intellectually which will ultimately realize itself in musical values...
...years, SNCC was in its dotage, became a feeble, vulnerable, yet ever more rhetorical intellectual vanguard in the rush toward Black militance. Clayborne Carson's portrait of the group in its transition from SNCC to what one member called the "Non-Student Violent Uncoordinating Committee" reads like a primer on political organizing, full of insight into both the sources of SNCC's strength and the seeds of its demise...