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Submerged Society. The teeming streets of London helped lend shape to Dickens' lifelong, horrified fascination with the submerged of Victorian society-the poor, the grotesque, especially the criminal. A long line of murderers stalk through Dickens' novels, from Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist to John Jasper in Edwin Drood. Among other things, they embody his belief in an irredeemable evil in human nature-a belief that tends to be forgotten because of the hilarity Dickens spread through even his darkest passages...
...beleaguered republic. Picasso was represented by Guernica, his agonized portrayal of a small town obliterated by German dive bombers. From Miro came The Reaper, a ferocious antiwar mural that has since been lost. Towering above the other works in the Spanish pavilion was a graceful, 41-ft.-high stalk of flowing concrete, by a lanky Castilian sculptor who had been commissioned by the Loyalist government in Madrid to cast his own version of the struggle. He called it: The Spanish People Have a Path Which Leads to a Star...
...young married couple in our mid-20s, my husband and I are all too familiar with the sexual demands that have been placed upon our society, primarily by the advertising media. What woman today isn't made to feel sexually lacking if she isn't celery-stalk slim, beautifully made-up all the time and sexually appeased nearly that often? And consider the poor husband whose wife is in any way lacking these things. Amid all this confusion, the article on Masters and Johnson was somehow reassuring...
...often self-consciously displays his lack of prejudice by dancing with blacks, he sometimes unwittingly reveals a hidden attitude by praising his partner's sense of rhythm. "Blacks got rhythm." That kind of remark infuriates Negroes. "It's a phrase that makes me want to turn and stalk out of the room," says a Boston girl. "I know as many lousy black dancers as white ones." Well-meaning whites cause other problems in social gatherings. "I work in an office where I'm one of the few blacks," says a 25-year-old Washington bachelor. '"There...
Masfortune continued to stalk the mat men when heavyweight Tom Tripp, a junior. decided not to wrestle this season. and instead devote more time to his studies and other activities...