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...tame, but it is also a trail blazer. In a new television commercial that went on the air last week in Dallas and Los Angeles, a series of black-and-white scenes depicts changes in women's lifestyles, from fashions to careers, during the past quarter-century. As the screen switches to color, a young professional woman is seen at work. A voice-over notes that for all the progress during those years, choices in female birth control had changed little "until Today." Introduced last year by VLI (third-quarter sales: $2.76 million), Today is the disposable contraceptive sponge...
...University of Massachusetts squad a week and a half ago, and after a 6-0 shellacking of the University of Rhode Island just last week--a victory that saw the Harvard club score more goals in one game than any Crimson team since 1977--the Cantabs seemed primed to tame the Tigers...
...like the love she sings of earlier, Carmen is a "rebellious bird/That you can never hope to tame" and before long the lovers quarrel. Suddenly, Escamillio, the matador, appears. Escamillio also has fallen madly in love with the enchantress since meeting her before her flight from Seville. He challenges Don Jose to yield Carmen but Don Jose, determined to hold onto the last strands of his dignity, refuses. Only when faced with the news that his mother is dying back home does Don Jose leave the smugglers. But all the while he vows to come back and reclaim Carmen...
Such sentiments cannot surprise modern Americans who see in their own lifetimes far more evidence of a tame, cooperative society than an open zoo of unclean beasts. For all its apostrophizing of the open road, most of the nation dutifully drives at 55 m.p.h., willingly undergoes searches before boarding planes, humbly douses cigarettes from time to time. Even those who storm against gun control require the collectivism of lobbies to make their individual stands. The term rugged individualism was coined by Herbert Hoover only a decade before the onset of Big Government and of a war where victory depended...
...they have to do is learn how to tame the Bruins...