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MARY McCARTHY, the novelist and penetrating critic of the grotesque Vietnam War, has recently remarked in the New York Review of Books that whatever intellectuals do with their skills and cleverness, they should never shy away from doing what they can do best--namely, to smell a rat, metaphorically speaking, and to dissect its nature and character, letting the chips fall where they may. To some extent, this is what I should like to do in my comments on the "Intellectual Validity of the Black Experience...
Smelling A Rat...
...outlook of Cambridge Public Health and Cambridge Visiting Nurses is more progressive. Edna Skelley, the director of Public Health Nursing for Cambridge, outlined the tradition of service of the Public Health nurse. Once inside the home, regardless of initial service request (for example, rat bite or sickness), the Public Health nurse surveys the needs of the home, initiates discussion on these needs and does referral. Miss Skelley made it clear that although the majority of the caseworkers were Catholic, personal tastse and religious affiliations were subordinated to service. Since family planning is central to familial health, referrals to birth control...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). George Segal is the chief rodent in King Rat...
Beneath the bitchy, lancing wit of the verbal byplay, Playwright Mart Crowley keeps a dead-level eye on the desolating aspects of homosexual life. He records the loveless, brief encounters, the guilt-ridden, blackout reliance on alcohol, the endless courtship rat race of the gay bars with its inevitable quota of rejection, humiliation and loneliness. Crowley underscores the fact that while the homosexual may pose as a bacchanal of nonconformist pagan delights, he frequently drinks a hemlock-bitter cup of despair...