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...like turning up in the middle of some black looneytune where the Duck had all the lines," Herr writes; even he found himself caught up in the chaos, unable to separate himself from the action. "It was that joke at the deepest part of the blackest kernel of fear, and you could die laughing...
...Trilling about baking bread and breaking down social inhibitions, but they planned on serving their bread on Spode china. Trilling at first is unable to find a satisfactory esplanation for their alienation; she can say only that these proponents of the counterculture "whistled in the dark, indeed in the blackest emotional midnight, like all the adherents of the counterculture I had ever talked with." Finally, she attributes what she perceives to be the students' isolation to the breakdown of social forms regulating their interactions...
...Galilee last week was denounced by many Israelis. The Communists, as could be expected, called for a no-confidence vote in the Knesset (it was overwhelmingly defeated) and screamed that the government was "a regime of murderers." Tel Aviv's independent daily Ma'ariv called the violence the "blackest day in the history of relations between Jews and Arabs in the state of Israel." Although the government probably overreacted in Galilee, it faces a continuing dilemma: it must be able to respond effectively when troops are harassed by Israel's own citizens; at the same time it must avoid actions...
Instead of persisting in a course that might well convert their extremist perceptions of ethnicity into a dangerous ethnic cleavaging of life at Harvard University, would Mr. Hardie and Ms. Reisman consider the following alternatives. For Peter Hardie, withdrawal from Harvard College and enrollment in the blackest of the blackest college he can locate. For Hope Reisman, Jewish seclusion in her own Jewish abode off campus...
...Strangelove. Dr. Strangelove is the definitive Cold War satire, perhaps the blackest of apocalyptic humor. It is one of those films, and there are few others, where every line seems just right. And quotable. "You're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for that," Col. "Bat" Guano tells Mandrake as he shoots open a soda machine in order to get enough change to call the W hite House. General Ripper's discussion of Purity of Essence ranks with the great madnesses of all time. George C. Scott's portrayal of Buck Turgidson is far better than...