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...particularly repelled by his comment concerning lectures. Mr. Muller seems to assume that every lecture has an intrinsic logical thread which any mature student can discern even if the lecturer's delivery is unintelligible. Superficialities aside, Mr. Muller apparently contends that the proper role of the student is to listen but not to be heard and that of the teacher to discourse but not reply...
Like Viet Nam itself, The Best and the Brightest starts with a thread and leads into a labyrinth. The beginning is the simple question: "Why, why had it happened?" Before David (The Making of a Quagmire) Halberstam, one of the pre-eminent war correspondents of that undeclared war, can contain his question, he is deep in his own maze, wrestling with his own minotaur. It is an awesomely pretentious and yet unavoidable monster, which he describes as "a book about America, and in particular about power and success in America, what the country was, who the leadership was, how they...
...health has set up a field headquarters in Buffalo Creek Valley. Instead of waiting for clients to come to the office, mental AP health aides ring doorbells throughout the area, especially in the 13 Government trailer camps where 2,200 of the homeless are trying to pick up the thread of their lives. Wary of social workers and psychiatrists, many residents at first deny that they feel stunned or disoriented by their tragic losses. Then, often as the visitors are just about to leave, the survivors hesitantly mention that they have been having a lot of headaches lately, or that...
...long as a month, with more lightly wounded comrades cooking for them over smoky wood fires on the bunker steps. There is no sterilization for instruments, and there is a shortage of catgut. Dr. Nguyen Van Quy, who performed 200 operations in two months, has taken to using thread from sandbags for sutures...
...nowadays. In Oakland, Calif., when the moon is full, a group of college-educated people gather in a house in a middle-class neighborhood, remove their clothes, and whirl through the double spiral of a witches' dance. In southern New Jersey, a 30-year-old receptionist winds thread around a voodoo doll and sticks steel pins into it in a determined effort to harass a rival at the office into resigning. In Chicago, from 75 to 100 otherwise ordinary people ? mostly professionals, such as office managers, nurses, social workers and chemists ? meet weekly in The Temple...