Word: reviewable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Must a motion picture depict wife-trading, homosexuality, crime, violence, or other perversity to receive a favorable review by TIME? Clean, wholesome pictures that emphasize the better values in life are consistently spoofed by your Cinema department. A recent case in point is "Into the Jaws of Heck," your cynical and smart-alecky review of the late Walt Disney's Follow Me, Boys...
...Your review of this fine picture is positively nauseating, and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of scouters who devote their time, talents and energies to the youth of this nation. They do this, just as did "Scoutmaster MacMurray," because they believe adherence to the scout oath, or promise, by the youth of today will make better citizens tomorrow...
...TIME feels that the movie-not the review-insulted the Boy Scouts...
Many men dream of being George Plimpton: handsome, rich, aristocratic, reasonably young (39), friend of Jackie Kennedy and Marianne Moore, sportsman, writer, world traveler, editor of Paris Review. Plimpton, on the other hand, dreams of being many men. He sees himself as a superathlete-or as several superathletes. His vision is not as remote as other Mittyesque mirages, for Plimpton has found a way of acting out his fantasies...
...class rankings that can be used by local draft boards to determine whether or not a student should be deferred; Harvard's association with some organizations--principally the American Council on Education--which have supported the present system; and the fact that the draft law will be up for review by Congress this spring...