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Furie, unlike Wayne, is on the side of the doves, but a brief exposure to the garbled ideology of Company C might per suade even Benjamin Spock to take up arms. The complex historical drama of Viet Nam becomes as mindless as a Saturday-morning cartoon. The bad guys are loutish American officers obsessed with body counts and South Vietnamese preoccupied with heroin smuggling. The good guys are the Marines in Company C, all of whom, apparently, fought the war against their will. The Vietnamese peasants are represented by picturesque extras who seem to be refugees from a way ward...
...founders, California State University Student Richard Stellar (his real last name, he insists), reports that orders are now coming in at the rate of 25 to 50 a day. The most sought after extraterrestrial neighborhood is the planet Vulcan, popularized by Star Trek's Mr. Spock. "We're only at the grass-roots beginning," proclaims Stellar...
...Left and counterculture believed that its youth, like the war in Viet Nam, would go on forever. It is tempting today to throw cherry bombs into the ruins of that delusion: the period seems prime for revisionism and ridicule. But to see that generation contemptuously as merely the screaming, Spock-coddled army of Consciousness III ignores the great changes it helped to cause in American life. Says Tom Hayden, one of the founders of the Students for a Democratic Society, who last year ran against John Tunney in the California senatorial race: "We ended a war, toppled two Presidents, desegregated...
...objects ranging from prehistoric skeletons to 19th century dolls are meant to be touched, tapped or even taken apart to discover what lies within. A model of a diamond crystal is so large that children can play inside it. The Boston Children's Museum, headed by Pediatrician Benjamin Spock's son Michael, takes its cue from a Chinese proverb: "I hear and I forget, I see and remember, I do and I understand...
...missing in action after the Red Baron finally shot him down. Wonder Woman was working for Ms. Magazine. Captain Mantra was in a suburban sanitarium, after swearing off the use of his superpowers when he witnessed the death of his sister Mary. An Amtrak train obliterated her after Dr. Spock bound and gagged her on the tracks...