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The obvious themes are built into the plot, and you can't ignore them. Peckinpah has put a rational, wishy-washy liberal under stress, simply so that he may understand man's violence: that it is inherent in his nature, that sometimes the violent solutions are the only valid ones...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Peckinpah Roughs it Again | 1/21/1972 | See Source »

The liberal position, of course, is that "no girl has ever been seduced by a book." That statement is erroneous, according to Poet-Librarian Felix Pollak-or at least he hopes it is: "For the saying doesn't do the cause of literature any good, or the intellectual cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: PORNOGRAPHY REVISITED: WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

He also emphasized the fact that University reaction to this building takeover has been "incredibly slow and wishy-washy in comparison to their handling of the black takeover of University Hall in early December last year." The injunction against the women's takeover came three days after the event, whereas...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Day, | Title: Graham Denies Alliance | 3/10/1971 | See Source »

Law student enthusiasm over his appointment two years ago has cooled into a sullen acceptance. "That's the Bok way of doing things," one second-year student shrugged during a curriculum reform discussion. "If you understand the Law School, you know that nothing changes very fast over there... but lots...

Author: By Robert Decherd and Scott W. Jacobs, S | Title: The Presidency: Clip and Save | 12/4/1970 | See Source »

To Schmidt, who was born on July 7 and was obviously dissatisfied at being designated a Cancer (sign of the tenacious, motherly and easily influenced), the change is eminently logical. The new line-up makes him a Gemini, "as might be expected, perhaps, of one who writes fiction and poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Revised Zodiac | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

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