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...agreed to an hour-long televised debate, the nation looked forward to a spirited exchange of their divergent views. Anticlimactically, last week's spectacular, displacing the Hollywood Palace revue on the ABC network, was no showdown, and it wasn't even good show biz. It was downright dull. Nearly two-thirds of the way through the confrontation, Moderator Frank Reynolds declared plaintively: "Well, there don't seem to be very many differences between Lyou] on anything, really...
...most of the debate was merely dull, the end was positively demeaning. The candidates were given a couple of minutes apiece to explain, like high school sophomores seeking class office, why they wanted to be President. Both began by dutifully presenting their credentials. 'Tve had the experience," said Bobby, evoking his service as Attorney General and member of the National Security Council. McCarthy, who wound up with a more substantial Who's Who entry, cited his 20 years in Congress and his service on committees that are concerned with the whole gamut of U.S. problems, from racial relations...
...where I worked for treatment of rheumatic fever. We became aware that Jimmy was a disturbed youngster, and we did some psychological testing. Jimmy, in tests that are admittedly culture-bound, tested out at an IQ of 125. His mother was as you've described the poverty-stricken-dull and depressed. We all looked at Jimmy in helpless despair. We knew that in all likelihood, he would either become depressed and his IQ would gradually go down to a dull level, or he would use his brains for crime or some other sociopathic activity. The point of this...
...acute the closer the base figure comes to the actual amount necessary to maintain a standard of living that could be described as middle class. The position of the middle class worker may be ill-informed, but it is not irrational. If he must work long hours, often at dull jobs, for his living; he may rightly think it unfair to give the same standard of living to someone who is contributing nothing to total production...
...beat that so comforts and reassures. One-two-three-four. ONE-two-three-four ONE. The beat mimics the repetitions of daily dull lives--mimics them and calls them art. Get up-eat-work-sleep GET-UP and on and on giving our lives a dignity they don't possess. The beat is like the clock they give a kitten when they're taken away his mother, so he won't be scared. Where is the music of live souls, of people who live with the knowledge that no instant repeats? Where is the music of free...