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...post-election symposium held by ABC brought together three of the targeted senators, Bayh, Church and McGovern, with two of the most powerful rightist leaders in the country, Paul Weyrich of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, and Falwell, president of the Moral Majority. Bayh took the opportunity to charge the Moral Majority with publishing propaganda stating that Bayh endorsed homosexuality and medical experimentation on aborted fetuses. Falwell denied the accusation...
...makes no apologies for this plotless venture to the Stardust Hotel (the name comes from a great Louis Armstrong tune), a seaside resort where a nebbishy but successful movie director renowned for his "early comedies" is lecturing at a film symposium. The film's transparent structure is almost non-existent; Stardust Memories begins aboard a commuter train to hell (a Staten Island grabage dump?) and ends under the twinkly lights of the hotel's screening room. Along the way Allen abandons coherence, chronology, and even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality...
Academic advice has repeatedly failed to aid development in the Third World, officials of nine developing countries said yesterday at a Kennedy School of Government symposium...
...World Congress of Sexology in Mexico in December, 1979 included a Symposium on Clitoridectomy. The German Institute for Scientific Films supplied three films, including an eight-minute reel on Excision of Omar-Arab girls in the Sudan. The institute has the highest international status--Harvard scholars are among the collaborators...
Wallace says that the remedy to the resentment between Black men and women lies in the opening of a "dialogue"--one that won't be easy or pleasant. At Harvard, there are steps in that direction, including Freshman Black Table's symposium on Black male-female interactions held last year, and the Association of Black Radcliffe Women's plans for a similar forum this year. But the ultimate solution Michele Wallace would suggest to Black women at Harvard and everywhere is the same as the reason Black Macho was written--"Because my personal answer for Black women is to become...