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...review of my novel Do with Me What You Will [Oct. 15], Martha Duffy states categorically that I portray marriage as damaging to women, causing their breakdowns. This is absolutely untrue. Some marriages are stifling, and thwart the individual's natural growth; but there are other marriages, healthy marriages, that allow both individuals their fulfillment. I am most upset that so perverse a belief should be attributed to me, since I have been married for 13 years. There is enough vicious, absurd anti-male and antimarriage propaganda in America today without Mrs. Duffy's deliberate distortion...
Once again, the death and destruction wrought by the military have failed even measured against the perverted standards of the American government. Revolution in Laos will succeed despite strenuous American attempts to thwart...
Saul Steinberg has always refused to be photographed: at the desk where he produces some of the sharpest, most visionary cartoons of our time, Steinberg keeps a couple of special masks, made from paper bags and decorated with parodies of his own face, to thwart any would-be portraitist. As if a photograph would catch his image in a distortion he could not control. As if being so revealed would endanger his perspective as self-appointed "inspector" of modern life--a term which is also the title of his new book of cartoons...
...Crimson took four matches in singles competition and two in doubles to thwart the Quakers in yesterday's action in Philadelphia...
...move to thwart the U.F.W. drive to organize California lettuce pickers is a prime example of Teamster tactics. Hours before the U.F.W. campaign was to begin, the Teamsters rushed through their own contract with the growers; the union did not bother to fill in the sections on wages and benefits, and the growers said nothing about a representation election. Last December, the California Supreme Court upheld the farm union's charge that the Teamsters and the growers had conspired to sabotage the U.F.W., opening the way for Chavez to resume his organizing program. But the Teamsters still claim command...