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...above seems a roundabout way to open a discussion of an eleven-million dollar Cinerama spectacular, it can only be said that Kubrick's film is as personal as it is expensive, and as ambitious an attempt at metaphysical philosophy as it is at creating a superb science-fiction genre film. Consequently, 2001 is probable commercial poison. A sure-fire audience baffler guaranteed to empty any theatre of ten per cent of its audience, 2001 is even now being re-edited by Kubrick to shorten the 165 minute length by 15-odd minutes. 2001, as it is being shown...
...news reports made us sound like fugitive lovers," laughed Amherst Sophomore David Eisenhower, 19, Ike's only grandson, commenting on the roundabout announcement of his engagement to Smith College Sophomore Julie Nixon, 19, Dick Nixon's younger daughter. The youngsters, who will not marry until after graduation, were only casual friends in Washington but have been seeing each other steadily since they found themselves at neighboring colleges; at Thanksgiving, David presented Julie with a diamond ring. Still, no announcement was made, Julie recalled, until her father "called me before he went on a TV show to find...
...readily symbolized. There is very little philosophy per se in this country, and Americans have been left high and dry by the evaporation of religion, but in talk about psychoanalysis there is a kind of authentic quest. It's an attempt to get back into philosophy in a roundabout...
...such nervously silly euphemisms as "uppity-cuppity" (for diaphragm) and it was considered boldly wicked to admit using them. All the while, Margaret Sanger fought futilely for a federal "Doctors' Bill" that would open the mails to birth control information and devices. Victory came by a more roundabout route. She had ordered a new Japanese pessary sent to an associate, Dr. Hannah Stone, and it was seized by U.S. Customs. In U.S. v. One Package, U.S. District Court Judge Grover Moscowitz dismissed the Government's suit, ordered the package delivered. When, in 1937, Attorney General Homer Cummings announced...
Confusing Questions. To compound the confusion, the few cases on record seem to agree that whether a husband gives his consent or not, A.I.D. children are born illegitimate; yet the same courts have managed to give the children all the rights of ordinary children by finding roundabout ways to rule that they have, in effect, been made legitimate. There is even more uncertainty, say some lawyers, about whether the donor himself can be made to support a child. Some state laws hold that every child is the responsibility of its "natural parents"-which in A.I.D. cases means mother and donor...