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...used to speculate about how the Beatles would break up and we imagined it would be some kind of a definite, apocalyptic event. But things happen so naturally in real life. Under our noses the Beatles drifted apart and we didn't even see it happening. Just suddenly the stark realization one day that the Beatles of old are no longer the same. Lennon and McCartney (not to mention Mr. Starr) have revealed themselves to be so far apart these days that it is almost hard to believe that they were once together. I guess we'll just have...
...only reason a black majors in Afro-American studies," says Mark Smith, one of six students on the university's 13-member standing committee, "is because he feels it will best enable him to work for his people when he gets out of college." Smith's stark rhetorical question: "Does Harvard, which we regard as part of the oppressor, have the ability to teach black people how to destroy it? I doubt...
...Various other proposals and rumors about the future use of the site have risen since NASA announced its departure. The Boston Globe yesterday reported that Charles Stark Draper of M. I. T.'s Instrumentation Lab was in Houston, Texas, for informal consultation with NASA officials about acquiring the center for the I-Lab. This report prompted simultaneous denials from Draper and Howard Johnson, president...
America's Puritan sense tends to regard evil in stark terms of black and white. It has been pointed out endlessly, and correctly, that the western, with its crude division of good guys and bad guys, is the nation's archetypal art form. Evil has thus been transmogrified, whenever possible, into the definable, detestable enemy-like Hitler, say-who could always be defeated by the forces of justice. The national instinct to juxtapose good and evil is summed up with only a touch of irony by W. H. Auden's nostalgic reference to simpler times...
...anthology of revelations and confessions, Z employs no metaphors and few euphemisms. It needs none. The time is yesterday, and the location is the birthplace of democracy. The ironies are only too severe, and the tragedy only too profound. The film's end is a simple, stark report: the April 1967 coup restored the corrupt police officials and gave their homicidal accomplices token sentences. The prosecutor was forced to resign and go into exile...