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Naipaul offers only one answer: countries must not look back too far and turn precolonial times into "le bon vieux temps de nos ancestres." This is the solution of General Mobutu in Zaire, a senseless one. Mobutu combines tradition and technology in a way that belongs to neither culture: African dances performed in a television studio, African art relegated to a sculpture niche in the wall of Mobutu's residence. Mobutu's "African nihilism" promises the flashy cars and gold wristwatches of Western technology while attacking their source...
...empty-handed and probably angry. Berger has tucked away no meanings here, provided no key to get at the order hidden behind all the slapstick. He raises the possibility that Earl, not his tormentors, may be bananas, but anyone who takes this seriously will find everything twice as senseless as before. What Berger has produced is a tour de force, his most successfully sustained comic narrative since Little Big Man (1964). Like the best black humor of the 1960s, Neighbors offers a version of reality skewed just enough to give paranoia a good name. - Paul Gray
...provide enough financial aid so that young people are not foreclosed by reasons of financial need from going to college," she says. Hufstedler feels that the national direct student loan program, which has allowed families boasting large annual incomes to seek help must be remodelled, because it is "utterly senseless to provide a financial bonanza to people who can afford to send their young people to college." She reiterates her position that default rates on student loans must be cut dramatically, and supports the administration's proposal to cut back about $250 million in student aid in fiscal...
...Anne's sister, Mairead Corrigan, began a door-to-door campaign, seeking signatures for a petition condemning the continued violence between Ulster's Roman Catholics and Protestants. The movement, known as the Peace People, won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for rallying public outrage against the senseless sectarian killings...
...have been allowed to let others do the fighting for them. A new draft is not an attractive alternative, but an equitable draft is far superior to fraudulent lotteries of privilege. And perhaps those in positions of power will think twice before sending Americans into senseless and unwinnable wars if their children are among those hitting the beaches...