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...name of sane humanity, let us stop our obsessive concern about homosexuality as a condition. Let us stop nervously watching our children until they start dating. Let us encourage the search for natural self. Let us encourage expression of all varieties of affection before our denied and twisted desires murder us all in an acceptable...
EVEN as the U.S. and Soviet Union prepared to sit down in Helsinki next week to discuss ways to limit their nuclear weaponry, there were signs that the nations of Europe-both East and West-have started an important new search for their own détente. Their ultimate goal is to settle at least some of the issues that have made Europe a divided continent since the end of World War II. More than at any time since the Cold War began 23 years ago, European leaders seem convinced that some progress is possible, and that the time...
...audience of today, these characters seem like a commune of dropouts, and Saroyan qualifies as the first articulate hippie. They are deliberate outcasts in search of saintly goodness, and their symbol, Kitty Duval (Susan Tyrrell), the stock prostitute with the heart of gold, has a luminous inner purity. When cops enter the bar and beat the black jazz pianist bloody, the scene has a truncheon-like impact that was totally lacking in 1939, when such events seemed isolated from any social context with which the audience was familiar. In those days, Saroyan was known as the "crazy...
...they analyze the success already achieved, researchers are finding that it resulted not only from cell tests ("Pap smears") but also from many other factors. And in pursuing their search for the causes of the disease, they are amassing evidence suggesting that many, perhaps most cases of uterine cancer are triggered by a common virus transmitted during sexual contact. This does not mean that uterine cancer is either an "infectious" or "venereal" disease in the usual sense; but it does suggest measures by which the disease might, to a great extent, be prevented...
...Boquen, a small 12th century monastery, where cloistered Cistercian monks have prayed and tilled the soil in silent serenity for centuries. In recent years, though, the monastery has welcomed the outside world with a sign at the gate proclaiming: "The brothers would like you to share in their search for spiritual unity and liberty." Since 1964, the abbey has been a center for audacious innovation under its prior, Dom Bernard Besret...