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...important. Women's Lib theoreticians were delighted, and Anne Koedt's pamphlet called The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm has become an important part of the liberation canon, bought today even by high school girls with inquiring minds. Greer takes bold issue with the notion of "the utter passivity and even irrelevance of the vagina." It is time, she says, to put the clitoris in its place as only "a kind of sexual overdrive in a more general response." More important, one should make love to people and not to organs...
...validity of that teach-in's program is not an issue: the utter immorality of all that the participants represent is manifest and is taken as assumed. Our "liberal" critics perhaps share this judgment, but they condemn our abuse of their sacred, traditional liberty-freedom of speech. I assert, in reply, that no one has the right to commit the crimes which our government and its lackeys are committing in Southeast Asia. Such criminals-and such representatives of theirs as we saw on stage Friday night-forfeit any "sacred right" to mouth their lies in my presence. They must therefore...
...Today, statements such as 'We know no more about human psychology and politics than Aristotle did' mainly express the ignorance of those who utter them." So contend Harvard Government Professor Karl Deutsch, University of Michigan Biophysicist John Platt and Political Scientist Dieter Senghaas of Goethe University in Frankfurt. The three scholars recently completed a major study of creative achievements in the social sciences, which they summarized in Science magazine. Countering the lingering academic disdain for behavioral studies as either imprecise esoterica or common sense festooned with jargon, the authors make a convincing case that the breakthroughs in social...
...only that, he would presumably prefer Jayne to Katherine Mansfield ("I doubt if there will be a really exciting woman writer," he once said, "until the first whore becomes a call girl and tells her tale"), and he has probably never even heard of Kate Chopin. Considering his utter lack of knowledge about women writers, his declaration about Lawrence is more than arrogant; it is nonsense...
...found Christopher Cabot's piece, "The Beauty and the Beast" (March 8) insulting as well as an utter waste of your space and my time...