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...years ago this week. That Nixon, you may recall, was the "Bring Us Together" man, the low-profile President who went about his business as quietly as possible, if also as deviously as possible. A President as detestable in his way as LBJ was in his-yet calmer, dull...
When I see, as I have seen since 1946, the potentially first-class men we have turned down for admission to Harvard-not just in terms of the "numbers," but in terms of character and creativity, and when I see the bright, well-educated, but relatively dull house-wives who attended the "Seven Sisters," I honestly shudder at the thought of changing the balance of males vs females at Harvard...
...town tryouts destroys more surely than boredom or even mediocrity. Theater disappears in the rush for backers to retrieve their investments. Broadway may now have found the perfect subject matter in its latest major musical, The Rothschilds, but perhaps it will only discover just how dull theater-material lucre can be. The real problem is money-not its absence, but its suffocating presence, its influence in cheapening quality, and ability to beget itself and only itself. Where the producer should be a means, he has become an and. When theater becomes a vehicle for money, it vanishes...
...visions, as in his plaints, Reich is a peculiar blend of Vance Packard and Pollyanna, a colloidal suspension of William Buckley, William Blake and Herbert Marcuse in pure applesauce. It can be justly said of Reich, as Dr. Johnson once said of Thomas Gray, that "he was dull, but he was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great...
Leftist Rightist. Child of a broken marriage (he describes his father as "a gentle Irish drunk"), Leonard was raised in Southern California by his mother. He squeezed into Harvard in 1956 mainly because of a geographical quota system, and after spending two dull years doing little but writing captions for the Crimson, he flunked out. He wandered to Greenwich Village and picked up two reputations: one for being leftist, the other for being rightist...