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Peeling back the plain brown wrappers that arrive unbidden in their mailboxes, Americans are often startled to confront erotic tableaux that range from the elaborately Oriental to the nearly gynecological. Last week a law took effect that could reduce the flow of pornography somewhat. According to the new measure, incorporated into the Postal Reorganization Act last year, anyone who does not want to receive pornographic material can go to the nearest post office and request that his name be entered on a computerized list. Thereafter, any pornographer who sends "sexually oriented ads" to a person on the list is liable...
Easy solutions to the ramifying problems of a technological age leap almost unbidden into Tichauer's mind, for he is both an inventive and a lazy man. His first impulse is to find an easier way to do anything. This ambition, together with a heartfelt concern for the physical vulnerability of man, has led him into a new and little-known discipline. Tichauer is a biomechanist: a scientist who is half-anatomist and half-engineer, and who seeks to improve the fit between man and machine. Under the prodding of human engineers like Tichauer, technology is beginning to accept...
...classroom. Although it's In to complain about assignments and deadlines, most students, not yet ready for independence, find security in this kind of regimentation. Many a class troublemaker who harasses his teacher is selfconsciously pursuing a reprimand. I recall one unruly college freshman who came unbidden to my office with a plea that I shall never forget: "I know my behavior is lousy. Can you make me stop?" Yes, I probably...
Last Tales. All the marvelous stories -The Ugly Duckling, The Ice Maiden, Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes-burst out like dreams, unbidden, from a talent that did not appreciate itself. Even while reciting his tales on demand to charmed royal circles all over Europe, Andersen waited hopefully for the time when his novels, not very good, and his poetry and plays, only a little better, would get the same acclaim. But that was not to be. And the time came when the last fairy story had been written. "How beautiful life is," said Andersen, dying...
Anthony Eden's public life ended in the public disaster of Suez. Broken in health and spirit, he devoted his pasture years to that unbidden duty that commands so many retired statesmen. This is the third and last volume of the Eden memoirs, which altogether fill more than 2,000 pages...