Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That voice was supposed to be the voice of Jimmy Carter. But Carter, inexperienced and impetuous in foreign affairs, subject to conflicting advice and distracted by domestic problems, has often vacillated and improvised. The consequence has been a series of foreign policy reverses. The problems of U.S. relations with the world have proved much more stubborn than Carter expected, and the need for a steady, if unspectacular negotiator with solid experience and sound judgment has, as a result, grown increasingly important...
...critics' concerns about Government intrusion, though, remains to be seen. Last week, a panel of 69 distinguished businessmen and educators-including former Education Commissioner Harold Howe, Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan, Rockefeller Foundation President John Knowles and World Bank President Robert McNamara-issued a statement on the subject. "There is a risk that the academic freedom of our colleges and universities will one day be compromised by the unrestrained growth of the influence of Government," they warned. What will follow their manifesto remains uncertain, but educators are in a fighting mood. "We're going to have...
...COME-ON was irresistible. Polanski, the peep shows--everybody's been hot about the subject of sex and children. Everbody's been even hotter about Brooke Shields, the twelve-year-old model with the face of a twenty-year-old who plays the lead in Pretty Baby. and based on his previous work, French director Louis Malle seemed like the perfect candidate to tackle the subject--child prostitution in early 20th-century New Orleans. In Malle's hands, the film could be expected to either purge our inhibitions with sexual explicitness, or plague our consciences with subtle social commentary...
...WOULD BE much easier to be charitable to this film if the subject did not have so much potential-- and if Malle hadn't seemed the perfect director to handle it. Of all contemporary French filmmakers, Malle has been the most subtle in his treatment of sexual hang-ups and societal perversions. It would have been hoped that he could do with our cultural inhibitions about child sexuality what he did with the incest taboo in Murmur of the Heart. Or that with his genius for cinematic austerity he could have conveyed the every-dayness of this sort of corruption...
...usual, the persons responding to my review--many of them students of sociobiology--react vehemently, but fail to grasp the most important questions I attempted to pose in my critique of DeVore's lecture. Although I have read extensively on the subject, I will not pretend to be competent enough to debate the sociobiologists on their own grounds, nor did I attempt to do so in my piece. I did attempt, however, to expose some of the philosophical assumptions and value-judgements implicit in the study of how genes affect human behavior and society. Not simply judgments about the ultimate...