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...EARLIER SEARCH for salvation, Berners switched from doing cosmetic plastic surgery on the rich to performing curative surgery on the poor for what he thinks is his son's sake. But their hareditary diseases, bred of poverty and neglect, remind him of the alleged physical force contaminating the younger generation. When he then looks for spiritual salvation, however, he cannot avoid the concrete realities surrounding him in city streets and hospital corridors. Bends of bearded youths and have krishna dancers with the faces of cheerleaders allow him to toy with the idea of a Second Coming...
...rights, we are entitled to a majority," but they obscure fundamental clashes of class and status that are more basic than the conflicts of sexual politics. The only "rights" which make sense in the assertion above are the laws of probability. Pushing a quota system for its own sake--which this report rarely does--divides, rather than coalesces the forces opposing economic, political or social imperialism of any kind--racial or sexual...
...more important than the study itself. Its arguments are significant, and its concluding essay on strategies in approaching the political system is extremely well conceived. However, its most hopeful aspect is the non-hierarchical effort it embodies of people using the tools at their disposal for the sake of themselves and of other people. If their example is emulated by women thinking of starting or joining pressure groups, research committees, day care co-ops, or discussion groups, it will have done more to educate the feminist movement than if every woman reading the pamphlet were to, write her congressman...
McCurdy expressed confidence in his squad. "Dartmouth has eschewed the title Indians," he said, "so I suppose that it is only proper that we give them a scalping for old times' sake...
...have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...