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...Outwardly conformist, these boys and girls are generally uncommitted to any church or political party. Inwardly romantic, they view everything in personal terms. Nothing is proved; everything is possible-drugs, cheating, abortion. To these students, says a Midwestern professor, "the only real things are intimate things: my girl, my pad, my book, my bottle...
Clad in open-necked suntans and Army clodhoppers, with Harkins always at his side, the poker-faced McNamara would begin by hearing from the local Vietnamese commander, then he would sit down before the U.S. detachment, firing incisive questions and scribbling notes in his lefthanded script on a white pad. At Hue, where the whole uproar began when government troops killed nine Buddhist demonstrators, the Defense Secretary listened to a half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles...
...approach to a movie is a study in agonizing intensity. Seated in the darkened theater, he holds on his lap a stenographer's note pad and jots down scribbles that look to anyone else like a kind of obscure Sanskrit patois. The picture itself is only part of his research. He wants every piece of material extant about the film-the original book, biographies of the performers, reports from correspondents on the making and makers of the picture, even handouts. Thus, when he wondered how some Japanese film makers got the effect of blood gushing from a samurai victim...
Cage, who has by some means determined that "people today are no longer afraid of time," played Vexations 75 times himself, then retired to sleep soundly on a foam-rubber pad down in the basement. But those who sat through the whole thing found themselves deeply enriched by the experience. The pianists were all transfixed by the music's windshield-wiper logic, and while each played his 20-minute turn (15 Vexations), the relief pianist stood by the piano, cultivating his interior immobility. "This kind of music," said one communicant, "leads toward the elimination of conscious control...
...sitting duck, the mourning dove is more like a kind of jet-assisted robin. When it takes off from a grainfield, its favorite lunching pad, the wily bird careens like a missile with a faulty guidance system. Like a climbing pheasant or a gliding goose, a dove is best downed by leading it, then firing at the spot where bird and shot should collide. But the dove is an artful dodger, apt to tumble or leap in the air just as the gun is fired. After many a fruitless hour, some hunters begin firing vaguely in the neighborhood...