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What follows this must be given careful attention because it is such a distortion of logic and reason, such a grand fallacy, that we almost assent to the argument in a brief, but heady, moment of romantic absurdism...
This was, "after all, Mr. Bok's press conference," as Dillon said in his introduction, and Francis (Hooks) Burr laid one grey-striped pants leg across the other, folded his hands, bobbed his free foot lightly, and watched. To some of Bok's responses he nodded his assent...
Chancellor Charles Young. "We are not going back to the apathy of the '50s, but the intensity of the last few years is no longer with us." Most of Young's colleagues nod only cautious assent. Student distrust of the Nixon-Agnew Administration remains high. The youth counterculture flourishes. Another Cambodian invasion or a heating up of the war in Viet Nam could touch off large-scale turmoil. Yet even the casual visitor finds a new climate on U.S. campuses this fall-a new mood of detachment that may well signal the end of large-scale student activism...
...main purpose was to disparage U.S. motives. In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers declared that at the present rate of withdrawals, U.S. troops "by and large will be out of the combat role" by May 1. This seemed to be a further effort to win the Communists' assent to Nixon's five points...
...their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such art. In the end, even the nostalgia of Philip Curtis' vision serves its purpose, which is to beguile the viewer into meditating on time and its erosions...