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...These Viet Nam veterans have surely triggered great rejoicing in Hanoi; they have compromised the men still in Viet Nam (whom they profess to love); they are the biggest bunch of crybabies ever to wear the uniform and a disgrace to the same...
...lime, "Love" is fruity and "You" has a cola flavor), Ripple (grape wine and tropical fruits) and Annie Greensprings (a grape rosé). The biggest sellers seem to be Boone's Farm, Bali Hai, Spañada and Ripple: exact figures are being withheld by the manufacturers, who profess to be uninterested in publicity...
...given Richard Rosen's credentials (22 years of living, four of them at Harvard) one could only hope for the worst: the last thing we need is another undergraduate holding forth with the truth. Instead, however miraculously, in Me and My Friends, We No Longer Profess Any Graces, Rosen chooses to speak only for himself. The result is-despite the 'umble posturing of its title-a most graceful, and often even gracious, little book...
...federal law regulates campaign spending -the amended Corrupt Practices Act of 1925. The law limits the amount that an individual contributor can donate to a single campaign committee; so candidates organize a multiplicity of committees. The law requires candidates to report expenditures of which they are aware; so they profess general unawareness. It bars corporate contributions; so corporate executives act as individuals in distributing company largesse. It bans labor-union outlays; so unions form political-action committees. The law's effectiveness may be measured by the fact that no candidate has ever been convicted of violating...
...More Broads. At men's-lib meetings, great emphasis is placed on recognizing "male chauvinism." Members compare women to oppressed minorities and castigate themselves as oppressors. They profess to believe, in the words of a University of Wisconsin professor, that "just as the first step for a white man in handling racial prejudice is to confess his own racism, so we are trying to deal with our own chauvinism." How? The general strategy advocated at most men's-lib sessions is to stop calling women "broads" or "chicks" and to take on more responsibility for birth control, child...