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...true villain behind the conflict racking America, Agnew says, is "not the bellicoseness of a few construction workers, but the supercilious attitude of some of the more educated members of our society who look down on policemen and plumbers and hard hats as inferior...
...Stage Villain. Miss Worth starts with what Ibsen gave her. Eighty years ago, Hedda was a melodramatic innovation; upon her arrival, frigid woman replaced lecherous man as a favorite stage villain. The new fate-worse-than-death, as many playwrights soon realized, was man's castration by this New Woman. Hedda is the sort of female who pushes drinks on a reformed drunkard and burns the only copies of other people's manuscripts. She is, in short, a bitch. Miss Worth knows it, and she takes it from there...
...villain is Scott Craig, a freelance film maker with a terminal case of what psychologists call affectlessness. Like a jet-set Sade, he rushes around the world anxiously seeking aesthetic forms through which to resolve his conflicts and act out his sexual obsessions. Craig's films include features about his secretary's sensuous mouth, copulating dolphins, even a reel starring a belly dancer's navel that smiles, frowns, bites and becomes a puckered keyhole through which a documentary collage of 20th century horrors may be ogled. Out of context, the man sounds comical. But the harder...
Because of its special hallucinogenic potency, LSD holds a particularly sinister terror for most Americans. Acid has been the villain in several bizarre and well-publicized incidents: there was the hoax that six Pennsylvania students were blinded by staring at the sun while stoned, the near death of a 5-year-old New York girl who innocently munched an LSD-laced sugar cube from the family refrigerator, the suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane, 20, after a bad trip. Now a new chapter has been written in the grim folklore of LSD. Somebody slipped some acid into...
...beginning of the nation's march toward equality?a march begun in 1954 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"?the path was simpler to follow. It was not hard to distinguish hero from villain when President Eisenhower dispatched Screaming Eagle paratroopers to keep Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' National Guardsmen from blocking the admittance of nine black children to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. Nor was it hard to choose sides after viewing the twisted faces of white housewives snarling at four frightened black children trying to desegregate New Orleans...