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...Holy sex education!" as Batman's Robin might say. Unitarian Universalist Sunday schools are showing twelve-to-14-year-olds explicit film strips on varieties of sexual experience, and Mrs. George Romney, Mormon wife of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, doesn't like it one bit. "What can twelve-to-14-year-olds do with that?" she asked a meeting of Washington's 20th Century Club. "We are denying them the whole knowledge of love and showing them only the animalistic characteristics. Why, when we know what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, when we know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 24, 1972 | 1/24/1972 | See Source »

...flip side of "Rockin' Robin" was a sizable hit in its own right and later became a smash for the Dave Clark Five. What was the song and who sang...

Author: By Compiled BY Andy klein, | Title: Semi-Annual Oldies Quiz | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...flip side of "Rockin' Robin" was a sizable hit in its own right and later became a smash for the Dave Clark Five. What was the song and who sang...

Author: By Charlie Allen, | Title: The Crimson Supplement | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...your readers would like to be brought up to date concerning some of the characters Mr. Clarke mentioned. First, Superman has decided to keep his superpowers to aid mankind; Wonder Woman has lost her powers and is now simply Diana Prince ("She's still dynamite in a fight"); Robin is in college, while his partner Batman ("the creature of the night") fights crime alone. Green Lantern, who now has a black substitute, has won the best-individual-story and best-continuing-feature awards given by the Academy of Comic Book Arts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 3, 1972 | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Woman was into Women's Lib 20 years before Betty Friedan-the comics have always appealed to men more than women, to little boys more than little girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned to writing for the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: THE COMICS ON THE COUCH | 12/13/1971 | See Source »

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