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...across the demilitarized zone--will have the effect of making peace more remote than ever. And the military tantrum which resulted from Johnson's recent bout of impatience with Ho will probably convince the North that future talk in Washington about peace and "unconditional discussions" is a lot of pap...
...potential psychotics may be identifiable and curable while in their teens, and an important segment of the medical profession has not given up hope of finding the cure to psychosis in the chemistry of the brain. While science may never develop a foolproof psychiatric Geiger counter or a cerebral "Pap smear" for spotting every psychotic in advance, there is no doubt that far more can be done within the resources of the Great Society to pare the danger of sudden, irrational murder...
...then Merrick savagely resents the power of the critics, and he will stop at nothing legal in his drive to whittle it away. "Sure, I'm playing this thing for publicity," he says, "but I'm also playing a deeper game. I want people to stop swallowing the pap these mediocrities are churning out and start thinking for themselves about the theater...
...title of TIME'S review of Henry Miller's Sexus ("The High Price of Zap"-June 25) suggests a possible rebuttal that might be called "The High Price of Pap." Henry Miller is one of the few people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil...
...contrast to their acceptance of the usual pap about the Houses, the editors have consciously tried to give more substantial profiles of Faculty members than in volumes past. Traditionally, the writing about the Harvard Faculty in undergraduate publications has taken three forms: dust-cover summaries which regurgitate schools attended, books published, and hobbies; interview transcripts which splice together quotes with transitional comments; and critical essays in which the writer combines biographical and interview material with some knowledge of the man's field to establish a point of view outside the man himself...