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...many of the best things about Britain-the peaceful villages, easygoing work habits, the uncommon civility that graces British life-will be endangered by EEC membership. There is a positive dread that chattering Frenchmen would monopolize London's sidewalks, that garlic-eating Italians in careering Alfa Romeos would shatter the tranquillity of the rustic British countryside, and that those too-efficient Germans would brusquely alter the cozy tea-break routine of British workers...
...Peckinpah and Stanley Kubrick honestly reflected surrounding chaos. Even if The Wild Bunch, 2001 or Little Big Man finally emphasized-through the criticism of portrayed societies-viable standards of intelligence and honor by which man could construct a sane world, they were at base level iconoclastic, determined to shatter set cultural conventions and destroy them utterly...
...other in 1967, Jim Ryun of the University of Kansas was the world's premier miler and Marty Liquori was a 17-year-old hotshot out of Essex Catholic High in Newark, N.J. At the A.A.U. championships that year, Liquori streaked home in 3 min. 59.8 sec. to shatter the four-minute barrier for the first time in his career. The crowd cheered-but not for Marty. He finished seventh, a full 70 yds. behind Ryun, who set a new-and still unbroken-world record of 3 min. 51.1 sec. for the mile. Last week the two met again...
Black and Blue. Reich's ideas and Bean's psyche were made for each other. Reich's therapy was designed to shatter what he called "emotional armor," and Bean's New England background had buckled him up tight in rigid inhibitions that ten years of classical analysis had failed to shake. Introduced to Reich's writings by a friend, Bean was fascinated by his theory that emotional and physical health depend on the free flow through the body of orgone energy, which finds its full expression in the Reichian orgasm-a happening that is physiologically...
With increasing zealotry, English Professor H. Bruce Franklin, 37, has sought to shatter the uneasy campus calm at Stanford University. In the process he appears to have reached the blurry outer limits of U.S. academic freedom and is in real danger of becoming the first tenured professor ever to be fired by a major American university for political actions that led to violence...