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...there's a difference in style. My job is to organize 'the college activities' for the reunion-wholesome pauses for intellectual activities in five days of orgiastic drinking. If I didn't do it, someone worse would. If one of those State Street people took over, it would be bland propaganda. They are all too inert to be shaken up-but at least we'll try to excite them a little. You can call it co-optation, or you can call it boring from within...
...spirit in which the Ticknor Library was planned. You quote Mr. B. A. Humphrey, who cannot speak for any of the departments housed in the building, as stating that "It is the desire of the Center to offend nobody." Personally I find this statement highly offensive, insofar as its bland philistinism reveals a total ignorance of the nature...
Cackling Caiaphas. When Schaller submitted his script to Oberammergau's 26-man Passion Play committee, it was rejected as too bland and muted. By then there was no time for another revision, so the committee merely used bits of Schaller's version for a cosmetic touch-up on their old one. The result last week was an uneasy jumble. Some of the sweeping references to the guilt of all Jews were deleted. Others were toned down, but almost imperceptibly: the crucifixion is demanded by "the whole of Jerusalem" instead of "the whole nation." God condemns "these sinners" rather...
...popular chant). It's nice to get people together, and I think November's protest in Washington was of some tactical value, but there's no way they'll end the war. At the other extreme, trashing and similar strategies seem to hurt the cause more than help it. Bland old liberal practicality seems the only way to proceed...
What is the need? Why does he have to have somebody to feel superior to? I'd like to study why he wants to bring up his children in those bland, sterile, antiseptic gilded ghettos, giving sameness to each other, producing stagnation and uncreative peole in a world that's become a neighborhood. I think there's a sickness here, and it ought to be studied by those same people who've been making their living from revealing the pathologies of black people...