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...last day of his quest, George McGovern hurtled across the country in a fishhook pattern: New York City, Philadelphia, Wichita, Kans., Long Beach, Calif., and then eastward again to Sioux Falls, S. Dak. He covered 4,399 miles in that final exhausting spasm, as if to demonstrate his fealty to the crusade through its crushing climax. He still posed the question in terms of morality and righteousness; Richard Nixon was guilty of the "big lie" in general and of "deliberate conniving deception" concerning the Viet Nam negotiations. At one point he talked about how Lincoln put his faith...
Felix Adedeji, who was slowed considerably by muscle spasm; against Cornell, is markedly improved this week, and he will play. Ric LaCivita, who played with bruised ribs last week, is not fully recovered but will start, while Emannuel Ekama is still out with a sore foot...
...days after Sadat's marathon spasm of rhetoric, Israeli Premier Golda Meir delivered a comparatively brief (44-minute) statement to the Knesset. Mrs. Meir's speech was carrot after stick. "Boldness and political responsibility have been rewarded," she began. "Thanks to this policy, Israel is stronger today in every respect." But she ended with a low-key leader-to-leader appeal to Sadat: "Let us meet as equals and make a joint supreme effort to arrive at an agreed solution. We have not declared permanent borders, we have not drawn up an ultimative map, we have not demanded...
Will there some day be a "unisex" society with no differences between men and women, except anatomical ones? It seems unlikely. Anatomy, parturition and gender, observes Psychologist Joseph Adelson, cannot be wished away "in a spasm of the distended will, as though the will, in pursuit of total human possibility, can amplify itself to overcome the given." Or, as Psychoanalyst Therese Benedek sees it, "biology precedes personality...
...take the glass," she says to Teddy's pimp brother, "I'll take you." When the pimp suggests that she become a part-time professional prostitute and "mother" the family, she strikes a crafty financial bargain and accedes. Only the father is struck by a final spasm of dread: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it! ... She won't-be adaptable...