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Wildmon seems sincerely convinced the networks are willfully wrecking America. He wrote recently in Conservative Digest, which Viguerie publishes, that networks "by design" have taught that "sexual immorality, violence, profanity, vulgarity, etc. were values worthy of imitation and emulation." On the deepest level, Wildmon and his fellow protesters yearn for a society-wide reaffirmation of the tradition of childhood innocence. They think children should be shielded from too much worldly knowledge too soon. Because the conservatives place so much emphasis on family and parenthood, they are ready to sacrifice adults' freedom of choice. There is a gruff, honest passion...
...I.D.F. is a source of both pride and problems, owing to the fact that Israel demands basic military service from virtually every young person-two years for women, three years for men. Elite volunteer units are more popular with the public than ever before. Young Israelis still yearn to be jet pilots, but they also apply enthusiastically for the paratroopers, naval commando units, and groups like the crack Golani brigade, which has carried out many of the recent raids into Lebanon. Women, once rare in field forces, now work as tank and plane mechanics, serve in artillery and communication units...
...finally rolls around and you still haven't had enough of school? You're in luck because during the summer Boston remains the college capital of the world. Whether you want to learn computer programming without fighting for a terminal or yearn to study theater design (for credit), summer school provides the ideal answer. And if Harvard doesn't offer the program you're looking for, chances are that another school in the area does...
...complicated soprano line and choral numbers that have the gentility of a shouting match leave us frustrated. Though nearly always glittering, certain lyrics seem gratuitous as Hugh Wheeler's book parcels out plot in neat bits of dialogue. With such a story-laden vehicle, tangential songs become tiresome; we yearn for songs with more plot in them. Sondheim and Wheeler sensed this tendency for Sweeney to drag and judiciously chopped out half of an appallingly dull number in moving the show from New York to Boston...
...career as a rock star because the recording execs compromise his style by electronic remixing. If you've seen it, or even if you haven't, don't bother to see Paul Simon's new movie, One-Trick Pony--Simon's version of the same story will make you yearn for Brady Bunch reruns...