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...Workers '80 shows why. The propaganda piece is as gripping as old T.V. footage of the civil rights movements, for there actually is moral energy here, actually a righteous and unco-optable underdog, actually a clear, courageous and sharp challenge to all the bullshit. May be no other episode matches the Polish revolution of 1980-81 for demonstrating the power of people to act peacefully, but forcefully, to overturn the old and corrupt; for all its technical flaws, this movie captures the spirit and the fact of that revolution and should be seen by anyone who gives a damn about...
...historic anti-women, anti-national minority discrimination, were rather isolated from one another and relatively weak. The different movements (women's, national minorities', workers') operated separately and often eyed each other with mutual suspicion. Individual struggles were waged, but partly because of the way in which they were conducted (unco-ordinated, no far-sighted leadership, lacking a mass character) they were only successful in calling attention to the issue of Affirmative Action...
...four "reviews of the scientific literature" impress one with how tentative and unco-ordinated research has been. They seem to keep reviewing each other. Sanford M. Unger's is the most informative; the others can be ignored. The most frightening kind of experimental fooling-around mentioned in the book is Eric Kast's work in Chicago. Kast decided to send 128 doomed cancer patients into hopped-up oblivion by giving them LSD without warning or previous instruction. He then calmly graphed the depression and "fear and panic" reactions, hallucinations and morbid fears of death...
Liberlisation of rules forced the club out of business and one of its girls, complains that "former customers () entertaining co-ed who are putting out for free". Unco with the morality problems that plague the deans, this hardened pregrumbled "I don't call that competition. To me, it's hitting below the belt...
...Braw. Unco' guid...