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...pamphlet entitled "U.S. Prisons: Schools for Crime" was published in September 1971, just two weeks before the Attica revolt. Other timely topics have been impeachment and women's liberation, as well as lighter subjects like "body language" and the Beatles' lyrics. After describing a bloodless coup in Bolivia, one pamphlet suggested that students analyze the power structure of their schools as if they were going to stage a coup of their...
...world's work is no longer done in the city, and the work done in Auchincloss's fictional law firm involves mostly trusts, estates, and corporate clients. It is very profitable, and it permits a group of people to lead very comfortable lives, but ultimately it is sterile, repetitious, bloodless and unimaginative...
...that closely approximates the caliber of such works, his two plays, Alpha Beta and now The Foursome, show that he is obsessed by the battle of the sexes, and that he has a biting flair for it. Alpha Beta depicted a working-class British couple shedding blood over a bloodless marriage. In The Foursome, which was written before Alpha Beta, Whitehead focuses on four Liverpool youngsters barely out of their teens. In the present off-Broadway production, the setting and characters have been shifted to the outskirts of Galveston, Texas, and the transition has been effected with astonishing flexibility...
...Advise and Consent series. Escalation has continued. Nothing less than the destruction of the American republic, and its transformation into a totalitarian dictatorship, is this book's story. It includes the assassination of a presidential candidate, the suicides of a President and a Vice President, and an incipient bloodless takeover of the U.S. by Russia. Drury's political principles have hardened into sclerotic pieties. Few would argue that the Soviet Union could never be tempted into acting out her ancient ambitions, or that U.S. military strength and civil concord are not important to keeping the peace...
...this cannot mask a crucial absence in all but a few of Duchamp's early paintings. The man who consecrated the second half of his life to chess has about his work the air of supremely intelligent, bloodless derision. There is almost no sign of human affection or concern; only the shrewd, anticipatory aspect of a mocking prophet...