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...finally, the liberal activists saw SDS in confusion after the death of Martin Luther King. A Boston rally held by SDS and other radical groups seemed purposeless and poorly timed. Above all, it was nearly all white. An SDS demand to pull all police out of the ghetto was severely criticized in the Crimson by Dr. Robert Coles, who asserted that the white radicals lacked any understanding of what was happening there. And meanwhile Afro came on strong and took nearly all the newsmaking campus activism away from them...
...Purposeless Grind...
...consider what its new role in society should be; it may be too much to expect that it will. For the draft is only temporary; even now there are those who leave in desperation, unwilling to suffer any longer what they consider to be the inanity of a purposeless grind. And the frank, radical self-probing which will be necessary for meaningful change to take place may well prove to be beyond the capacity of a community noted for its "liberal cool." If such be the case, then Harvard will be around for a long time--its $1 billion bankroll...
...novels of the tired "new wave" school. J.M.G. Le Clézio's writing is in turn dense and simple and occasionally brilliant. The ideas are old hat but earnestly pressed: God is dead, man lives simultaneously in an ugly asphalt jungle (outside) and an increasingly demented and purposeless state of mind (inside...
...film as a whole; a competent director of narrative films like Michael Curtiz (Casablanca) plans shots with relation to the entire scene. Nichols, however, cannot plan past a given shot, and although a frame may contain an effective gimmick, camera angle, or background detail, the scenes themselves are purposeless and disconnected, largely due to awkward and self-conscious editing...