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Several of the students had suffered severe injuries: according to The Crimson report, the police had arrested quixotically, and applied their nightsticks at random. Among the arrested were a Somerville clerk who was making a bus transfer in the Square when a police van passed by; two students were picked up on Holyoke Street, several blocks from the "riot" in front of the University Theatre, by a passing Black Maria; one student had his nose broken and face lacerated by a policeman attempting to knock a pipe from his mouth...
...general, they have feigned adherence to "the science game" only to give a veneer of respectability to practices antipathetic to the ethics of a university. These practices are not random lapses; they stem from a philosophy that denies the intellectual and moral premises on which a university is based. Universities are built on traditions of open-mindedness, intellectual discipline, and precision of thought and expression. Leary and Alpert show no devotion to these things...
...wielded enormous power. Of course, he made a few mistakes: The story goes that Carpenter Center was designed to be built at 888 Memorial Drive, but that, when someone asked Bundy where it was supposed to go, his mind was on other things. He stuck his finger at random on a map of Harvard and said, "Put it there," and they did. One imagines John Kennedy asking Bundy to suggest a place where the U.S. could demonstrate our firmness to the Communists and Bundy randomly selecting Indochina on a wall...
...victims of these random assassinations accounted for 121 of the 467 violent deaths recorded in Ulster...
ESPECIALLY THE SEX As well as outrageously good entertainment, the novel is a fairly subtle exploration of masculine sexuality with an unorthodox twist. "Fogarty perceives the feminine as the random changing the coming and going and the male as the eternal constant. Needless to say. Fogarty has little use for feminism. Without understanding the universal self deception of sexism in women as well as in men, he thinks women have consciously willed their own exploitation. (The short sightedness night will be the author's as much as the protagonist...