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Apparently this kind of advice is what the students want. Sarrel has been dubbed "the Charlie Reich of sex counseling" by an irreverent observer, and like the author of The Greening of America, he is very popular: 300 men and women crowd into his weekly lectures at Yale, and more than 1,000 other colleges have asked for outlines of his course. For good reason. The Sarrels' careful counseling has cut the VD and unwanted pregnancy rate at Yale to nearly zero...
...debate over Pope Pius XII and the Jews in World War II refuses to die. For more than a decade, critics like Rolf Hochhuth (The Deputy), Saul Friedlander (Pius XII and the Third Reich) and Carlo Falconi (The Silence of Pius XII) have speculated on the question: Why did the Pope fail to denounce Hitler and mobilize his invisible legions, as Winston Churchill once called the world's 400 million Catholics, against the Nazi terror? Whatever their conclusions, Pius' critics have conceded that he partially made up for his public silence by quietly using Vatican agencies...
...became a professor of humanities and wrote At the Edge of History, a provocative little book greeted variously as "dazzling" and as "not so much an analysis of the decadence of our civilization as a symptom of its decline." Wrote one reviewer: "Thompson's Edge is to Charles Reich's The Greening of America what chess is to Chinese checkers." In a lengthy interview, TIME Correspondent John Wilhelm pursued further Thompson's ideas about technocracy, beginning with the Club of Rome, the international organization of scientists and industrialists that has called for zero population and economic growth...
...Olympic Committee in 1928, wrote: "Nothing is more characteristic of the genius of the American people than is their genius for athletics." The Führer envisaged the 1936 Games in Berlin -the last time they were held on German soil-as a showcase for the Third Reich and Aryan racial supremacy...
Fortunately, Lehmbruck's truncated output survived the Third Reich -though Hitler considered it, along with most expressionist art, degenerate -and in 1964 a special Lehmbruck museum opened in his native city, Duisburg. But though revered in Germany, Lehmbruck is not well known in America. To rectify this, the National Gallery in Washington has organized a Lehmbruck retrospective, which will run until Aug. 13, thus giving Americans a chance to assess the wistful and curiously poignant work of this haunted...