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Marvin Mitchelson, 54, palimony lawyer, on prenuptial contracts: "In nine of ten agreements I've drawn up, the couples eventually got divorced. It might be a wise legal move, but it sure isn't romantic...
...psychiatric doctrine and formulates a hands-off policy toward the unconscious: "It cannot be a bad thing to own one, but I would no more think of meddling with it than trying to exorcise my liver, an equally mysterious apparatus. Until we know a lot more, it would be wise, as we have learned from other fields in medicine, to let them be." Doubt, as the doctor gracefully demonstrates, is another way of knowing...
Hedgehogs, the real ones, are hard to provoke, and they move very slowly. It would be wise to emulate them and concentrate on long term sources of Western power and influence rather than running gunboats and AWACs from week to week around the world. In the longer run, treating the locals as extensions of Soviet power tends to make them so. Negotiated settlements and peaceful conditions favor the West, because the West can usually deal with both sides while the Soviets cannot and because in peaceful circumstances economic needs supersede the need for weapons, which are all the Soviets...
White's article presents Mao as a devilish dictator who would kill millions to enhance his power. Mao is worse. He is in the same class as Hitler. The Chinese would be wise to scrap his thoughts entirely if they wish to achieve peace and move ahead economically. The U.S., on the other hand, would benefit from helping China to modernize. When China's economic standards reach those of the West, there is a chance that the Chinese may discard the Communist system and become a major force in the free world...
...comedy, satisfies nearly all the requirements for what moviemakers tout as wholesome family entertainment. It is tuneful, cheerful and colorful-exquisitely filmed in the Tyrolean Alps of Austria. It celebrates courage-the real-life daring of the Trapp Family Singers, who fled the Nazis in 1938. Though Director Robert Wise has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults.' In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice...