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...occasion in St. Louis to make a refreshing call to a national reconciliation -and found himself refreshed in turn by a jubilant reception that acted as a visible tonic. Once home in California, he reflected: "In Washington, we tend to live in a very isolated world. There is a sort of intellectual incest which really reduces the level of the dialogue. You have to go to the country now and then to get a real feeling of what people are thinking...
Reworking Lenin. Perhaps the most telling is the treatment of Stalin in the recently published fourth edition of Lenin's biography, which is a sort of hagiography of Soviet Communism. Unlike the earlier biographies, the new edition omits the entire section on the rise of Stalin's cult of personality, the Soviet euphemism for his reign of terror. It glosses over his disputes with Lenin about economic and military policies. In addition, the present version strikes out Lenin's complaints that Stalin was coarse and rude. In fact, the only criticism of Stalin appears in Lenin...
...first time I met Roger he was looking for some speed. He said he needed it because he was so depressed. He tries to organize depression and clation into a sort of cycle. Both make him uncomfortable, and he likes speed because it sort of rounds off the corners. Or that's what he said. But right then, at that moment, what he really wanted was some grass, because he had an abcess in his mouth that was moving down his neck. It stood out like a blue neon log, almost three inches long. Roger went to the free Clipic...
...parents sent him off to a military school a couple of years later, to "make a man out of him" one assumes, but he was long past that sort of ridiculous patch-up job, putting madness in uniform and calling it something else, and soon he was there standing on the corner of Haight Street blowing some weed...
Abstracts get jumbled out in the real world. Divinity School students get things done because they have an answer to THE BIG QUESTION. They are also very kind people. I talked to a member of the staff at Project Place named Aram Shiller. He seems to live a sort of informed passivity, and says in the middle of a long day. "I won't call what I do fighting. Our philosophy is that you don't have to be where the person you're talking to is at to help him. You don't have to be strung...