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...Halliday's psychosocial medicine would include "biopolitics." He gives a practical tip: avoid political leaders who themselves have recurring psychosomatic illnesses like skin troubles, stomach ulcers, rheumatism...
John D. Wild, professor of Government, who spoke after the demonstrators had left, called for "strength of purpose" rather than conscription to avoid...
...must learn to put more of this last ingredient to work in the right places and in the right ways. We must, above all, avoid the kind of mistake which in 1944 and 1945 led us to throw away enormous assets of democratic good will in liberated Europe. We were then under the illusion that war is a merely military operation; we conceivably might not be voting Marshall money this year if four years ago we had possessed a political field force equal in talent and capacity to our military commands and forces in Europe. The equivalent mistake...
Such shenanigans dramatize Graves's disgust with civilization as he finds ' it. That disgust kept him in high school until he was 21 because "except for drawing, the subjects were a nuisance," and since then he has almost always managed to avoid steady work. His new temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle...
...loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation as a lover of peace who is trying to find a way to avoid World...