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...current U.S. lead is 656 to 350). Says Nixon: "The U.S. and the Soviet Union have now reached a point where small numerical advantages in strategic forces have little military relevance. The attempt to obtain large advantages would spark an arms race which would, in the end, prove pointless...
...book may touch too close to home. Living in our tiny rooms, by turns smoking dope, listening to Dylan, and sleeping, it's all too easy to understand Randy's maze of confusion. Caught swirling in a world out of control, Randy's last scream echoes our own pointless protests. We may have had enough of this replay of our own lives, especially now when we have a sense of the beginning and the end of what was once full of buoyant hope. I just don't know anymore. You have to think in the end tha this book...
...exalted reputation. In the canon of dramatic literature, Godot is an original stunt, a clever game, but no masterpiece. It has spoken to the inner spirit of an age that is antiheroic, narcissistic, self-pitying, and prone to believe that man's journey through life is a pointless shuttle from nothing to nowhere. When that view of man alters, the vogue for Beckett will end. And the view will alter, for man has never gone .through any extended period of history with such a dim, stunted opinion of himself and his destiny. During failures of nerve, men are simply...
...pros are now planning as if it were already 1972, even to the point of discussing how to penetrate such important voting blocs as blacks and ethnic groups. All tacitly accept the premise that unless Viet Nam and the economy dissolve into nonissues, any other political planning is largely pointless...
...What can I say? I read it with such deep regret. The author's attitude must surely represent a Harvard equivalent of all the "Old Yale" chauvinisms which now seem so distasteful to most of us. And it was so very petty. A personal attach against Mr. Brewster. A pointless and absurd attempt to characterize the Yale faculty's intellectual contributions in terms of "Love Story" and Mr. Reich's recent tract, "The Greening of America" In short, a published ego trip where. in Mr. Kinsley indulges his vendetta against Yale in a manner which does not flatter the CRIMSON...