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...pages of the The Harvard Crimson a great wrong has been committed. This month freshmen are choosing among the Houses, and it makes me angry that many intelligent, talented students who could contribute to the diversity of Eliot House will decide to live elsewhere on the basis of mindless hearsay like Mr. Abramowitz's comment. There are many of us here who don't have military interests in Central America, won't work for Morgan Stanley, and wouldn't have dreamed of voting for a man as right--wing as Walter Mondale, and we'd love to have some company...
...mindless fanaticism is the same, and the revolutionary jargon sounds all too familiar. After almost ten years of somnolent underground existence, Western Europe's urban guerrilla movements are once more wielding terrorism as a weapon for political disruption. The downfall of capitalism remains a long- term goal, but the immediate targets and the strategy have changed: in a brutal perversion of Western Europe's peace movement, the latest guerrilla campaign of bombings and assassinations is aimed chiefly at Western European defense installations and the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Equally ominous is evidence that terrorist bands in West Germany...
After the indictment was returned, Donovan charged that he was the victim of "a mindless inquisition," adding that he was "disgusted" by the "obviously partisan timing" so close to the November elections. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and took a leave of absence without pay from his Cabinet duties. Most labor union leaders were not sad to see Donovan step aside: in the past three years he has cut the Labor Department's work force from 22,000 to below 18,000 and its budget from $30.1 billion to $25.3 billion. Taking over Donovan...
...merely a gloss on the fact that the torch was lighted. Everything was startling, but the same. Tunes were played. The kids marched in and out. Odd to think that 52 years from now people may look back and remark with deep wisdom: How naive they were. How mindless...
...film also contains an interesting paradox. It is heartening to see reading touted as an important, powerful activity after dozens of films like Joysticks and Footloose touting the mindless. But, ironically, Bastian does not read the book curled up at home in front of the fire; he cuts a math test and spends the night in the school's attic reading by candlelight. Sure, reading and imagination are important--but they're not complete and absolute excuses for ignoring everything else...