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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well treated medically as the wealthy, are they not also badly treated in every other way? If the physician makes a good income, is he not merely doing something that is praised in every other line of endeavor? Where technological ability has far exceeded the wisdom to use technology in the common interest, is it cause for wonder that medicine concentrates on the esoteric rather than the mundane? You are caught in a peculiar bind. You think that physicians should be better than other people (perhaps they should), and then you want to make them better by placing them under...
Perfect Pretext. Against the backdrop of military preparedness, the Soviets began an ominous propaganda campaign that seemed aimed at crippling West Berlin's economy. The Soviet government announced that it had requested the East Germans to use whatever measures were necessary to halt what it claimed was the flow of military products from West Berlin to West Germany. That announcement was followed up by a Pravda article that listed a large number of Berlin-made products, chiefly optical and electrical equipment, that the Soviets claimed were used by the West German armed forces...
...reasons are various. Unlike fine porcelain or glassware, silver is rugged enough to be used on the dining table. George I coffeepots go for as high as $15,000 and George II candlesticks for $3,000, largely because any host can not only use them, but be more than proud to display them. (What housewife dares entrust to a maid, or even herself, the washing of a Ming plate or a Meissen cup?) Some private collectors are charmed by the nostalgia that exudes from an emblazoned baronial crest, enchanted by the social history implicit in a snuffbox and fascinated...
...Chicago Sun-Times circled warily, citing Roth's "generous use of the saltier nicknames for our reproductive organs and their congress with one another." In the New Republic, Critic Anatole Broyard tried arch humor, calling the book "a sort of Moby Dick of masturbation." Many newspapers and magazines fell back on tradition, using initials and dashes for familiar obscenities. Considering its usual soberness, the New York Times Book Review surprised its readers by permitting its reviewer to repeat verbatim some of Portnoy's sex-obsessed plaints...
This year a benefit in New York will send Harlemites to Harvard. The Pudding Theatricals will also let other Harvard theatre groups use its stage, and possibly offer them financial aid. The dining room may even be opened to audiences...