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...difficulties lie deeper than just interesting these "ultra-super nominalists" in meaningful political activity. One disillusioned Executive Committee member blamed the club's impotence on those who view the organization as a stepping stone for future political careers. "They range from pseudo-new-Leftists in grey flannel suits to those who would be in SDS, but are too timid to affiliate with it for fear of hurting their budding political careers," he said. "Reluctant to voice any effective platform, they present a generalized liberal view centered entirely around elections, with no conception of extra-political social means of bringing about...
...potentially lethal game of espionage and tag. Gorshkov's fleet has expanded its activity on the seas by three hundredfold in the last ten years, and much of its effort is devoted to a determined policy of harassment, probing and provocation. Across the oceans of the world, the light-grey-hulled Soviet warships are watching, trailing and sometimes crowdj ing the ships of the Western fleets, especially those of the U.S. Navy...
...least temporarily-the modern residential section south of the Perfume River, but the battle raged with full fury in the rubble-strewn Citadel, the early 19th century imperial fortress that holds much of Viet Nam's architectural and cultural treasure. As thousands of refugees huddled under a grey pall from countless fires, 1,000 U.S. Marines crossed the river to help the 2,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen and Marines fighting to recapture the former royal enclosure, once known as "the Forbidden City...
...lands three astronauts on an unknown planet. They have been traveling for a cool millennium or so, but their craft has been zooming along at close to the speed of light, and so-in accordance with Einstein's Time-Dilation Theory-they have scarcely aged, save for some grey in their beards. At first, all they find is sand, but soon they stumble across a primitive tribe of mute cave people. "If this is the best they've got, we'll be running this planet in three months," smirks the skipper, played by Charlton Heston...
...subject matter, there is the expected melange: the French moodiness of assorted epochs, German Idealism, the early Lukacs and the sad, grey condition of Eastern Europe. The formal discussion of ideology takes up less than 50 pages, albeit 50 dense pages. Though many of the succeeding essays illustrate points raised in the initial section, none does so in the least systematically...