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After being convicted of manslaughter and second-degree murder, the father was sentenced to from ten to 40 years. Garland has obviously touched a sympathetic nerve among peers who have seen their children vanish into a world beyond parental comprehension. Since December, Garland has received hundreds of letters of support. Said one California father of a teen-age girl: "There must surely be many among us who have done in our hearts what you have done with your hands. To have those to whom we have opened our hearts and treasures say 'Your truth is not truth, your values...
...Methuselahistic, and the plot is not much younger. For his game, Director Joseph Mankiewicz chose such veterans as Arthur O'Connell, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn and Martin Gabel. Together, their gray thatches look like a stand of dandelions gone to seed. One good breath and their hair might vanish, two deep ones and the picture itself might be gone-and no one the poorer...
...does not end... The variations go on until they seem to merge into a purple horizon, and vanish...
...most terrifying eras of modern history: the Great Purges of the 1930s, or, as Khrushchev calls them, "the meat mincer." The NKVD, Stalin's secret police and precursor of today's KGB, suddenly became all-powerful, and thousands of party officials and army officers began to vanish. Khrushchev survived the grim era in willing ignorance. "I don't know where these people were sent," he says. "I never asked. If you weren't told something, that meant it didn't concern you." The usual estimate of party members imprisoned or murdered is nearly...
Many will fight for the security of the corporate state, even if that security is a deception and an instrument of anguish. Nor are such people likely to vanish through the cycle of generations. Parents raise children in their own image, and most children comply. The apparent radicalism of many high school and junior high students may be no more than the unenlightened protection of group self-interests such as the New Deal...