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...Variables. Shelter debate is almost meaningless, of course, unless tied to a clear set of premises about the character of a nuclear attack. The effectiveness of shelters would depend on the pattern of attack, the size of the bombs, their accuracy, the height of the explosion, weather conditions, and several other variables, all subject to change as U.S. and Soviet technology moves...
Aspiring & Striving. "All of us French intellectuals have had to come to terms with the same problem," he told a friend last week in the U.S., where he is currently on a lecture tour. "Camus and Sartre and Malraux saw life the way I did-as meaningless and absurd, with war the most meaningless absurdity of all. And yet, instead of withdrawing and doing our best to avoid suffering, which would be the logical course, we all worked hard and risked our lives in the Resistance. Why? Another way of asking this is: What...
After Syria's breakaway last September, the three-year-old United Arab States consisted only of two members-Egypt and tiny, backward Yemen. Last week, Nasser kicked out Yemen. With Egypt thus turned into a federation of one but still clinging to the now meaningless title of United Arab Republic, Nasser promised new glories for "Arab socialism," started off by lavishly insulting his old Arab enemies and generally agitating the Middle East...
Indignant denial that Boston is corrupt is nearly as old as Boston's corruption itself. This week Cardinal Cushing added himself to the city's defenders: he insisted that the implications of a nationally televised film showing police visiting a bookie joint on Massachusetts Avenue were false, meaningless, and irresponsible...
...less successful (and the girls are not helped by an unfortunate etymological process which has added an unlooked for ribaldry to the operetta). Only Celia (Miss Elinor Martin) has the wild-eyed boredom proper to a group of immortals who cannot determine why they bother to trip their completely meaningless measures. And Miss Colleen Ryan, the Queen of the Fairies, despite her attractive contralto voice, lacks the heavy authority of a true monarch...