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...HARA CONCERN by MATTHEW J. BRUCCOLI 417 pages. Illustrated. Random House...
...WORLD of Cockpit is not only barren, it is random and irrational. Tarden's obsession with power is a way of fighting the absolute dominion of chance and accident, a way (he reverses Faulkner's phrase) of surviving where most people only know how to endure. Tarden blinds an armed attacker by luring him into a room used for treating photographic plates with powerful quartz lights. That man, he says, was a fool for taking so few precautions. Tarden, on the other hand, hooks his feet around the legs of chairs so they can't be pulled out from under...
These tips are from Michael Korda's Power! How to Get It, How to Use It (Random House; $8.95). Another current power book, Robert J. Ringer's Winning Through Intimidation (Funk & Wagnalls; $9.95), has some equally keen advice: do not trust anybody at all; assume you will fail, so your positive mental outlook will not be crushed by a setback; make as much money as you can, because life is short and pointless and there is nothing better...
Freshmen this year will not have the chance to request either the Yard or the Quad, but have been assigned on a purely random basis. A spokesman for the freshman dean's office said this is an effort to prevent the dissatisfaction provided by getting something you didn't ask for, and maybe it will. There are people who have been miserable in both the Yard and the Quad, whether they asked for them or not--and there are people in each who say they wouldn't have lived anywhere else. Each area--the Quad and the Yard and River...
...whole, quieter than the Yard or the River Houses supports the conception of studious unsociable types who are supposed to live at the 'Cliffe, and keeps Yard freshmen from really giving the Quad a fair trial. But freshmen who live in the Quad are assigned there by random selection this year--there has been absolutely no attempt to put quieter people at the Quad, so the Yard will have just as many losers as the 'Cliffe, and probably more...