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Favorite Daedalus topics fall in three categories: education, American society, and "the future." For obvious reason, education draws the liveliest response from fellows of the Academy. Everyone can talk about his trade. If Daedalus wishes to be a "genuine medium of communication" between the disciplines, it has to feature themes like university-and-society. Perhaps because physicists and linguists have a rather limited number of topics in common, Daedalus spends too much time on education...
Wouldn't Everyone Talk...
...Urban Studies. Black Educator Rhody McCoy, 46, is administrator of New York City's Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental school district. Last week they met at the offices of TIME to discuss their concern about the deteriorating relationship between the ethnic communities to which they belong. Excerpts from their talk...
...Alcohol. Mrs. Castle, 57, a lifelong Socialist and welfare-state evangelist, seems well suited to talk tough to trade unionists. The petite wife of Ted Castle, political editor of the Sun, a national daily, she can be a rugged infighter. In her former position as Minister of Transport, she pushed through legislation empowering police to give "Breathalyser" tests to drunken-driving suspects. That enraged British pub owners, who introduced "the bloody Barbara," a drink consisting of tomato juice and tonic-but no alcohol...
Queens Row. Unlike the relatively benign characters in the Warner Bros, pen epics, however, the cons in Riot are a pretty unattractive bunch. They talk dirty and act even worse: they make squealers run a gauntlet, brew up a batch of raisin jack and get high and try to seduce one another in a cell block called Queens Row. The character that Bruce called "the handsome but mixed-up prison doctor, H. B. Warner," has been replaced by a sissified head-shrinker whom the men lovingly refer to as "that faggot psychologist." The warden, usually portrayed as tough but sympathetic...