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Australia's 40,000 full-blooded aborigines,* nearly half of whom live in isolated tribal groups in the Northern Territory, are "protected" by confused statutes restricting their movement, for bidding them to drink alcoholic beverages even if they remain sober and orderly, to own land or firearms, and to cohabit with white Australians...
...pastry flown from Tunis, drink Israeli orange soda, savor an Egyptian beancake sandwich, try a taco from Colombia, drink Greek wine, and sober up at an Indian tea bar. You can inspect benni seeds from Sierra Leone, pitchforks from Taiwan, and yourself on RCA color TV. You can see the Pietà of Michelangelo in the Vatican pavilion...
...sources of radical and rebellious Roman Catholic thinking used to be the industrial missions in urban France or the theological faculties of German universities. Lately, the fount of ideas that may skirt heresy - or may become the accepted reshaping of church thinking - is the staid and sober Netherlands...
...diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity and understanding, despite such gimmicks as a walk-on role by U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. Stooped, sage and sober, the ambassador looks like a man who knows the U.N. will survive even this sad Affair...
...less chronologically-until occasionally whole poems are free of howlers. Still the reader finds Melville awkward and even embarrassed in the presence of poetry, as if poetry were attended by a duenna and not a muse. His enormously long philosophical poem Clarel, which is excerpted here, is a sober, jointy affair in which pilgrims clatter painfully about the Holy Land thirsting after truth amid the waterless cantos...