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...people connected with the University, bound as they are by a common commitment to Pirsig's "real University," share a common interest which is best served by the actions of a benevolent vanguard group within the community--the Faculty/administration. Hence in the core debate the faculty proponents tried to blunt student opposition by continual references to the "community of educated men," for which the criteria of membership, of course, could best be defined only by the Faculty. In the Loeb coup, the Faculty reminded the students of the common goal to provide good theater, ignoring the need to develop good...
...nearly as powerful or masterful as the first. "Shooting Star" is Reed's semi-sardonic mimic of David Bowie; "I Wanna Be Black" is at times painful--"I Wanna Be Black and get shot in the face like Martin Luther King"--but illuminating in its surprise, raw and blunt, like the life it sings...
...warning command-and-control aircraft and 1,800 Marines to battle on eastern Mediterranean shores in support of Greece and Turkey. From the North Atlantic's Second Fleet, planes could strike the mammoth Soviet naval facilities on the Kola Peninsula or dispatch amphibious landing forces to Norway to help blunt a Red Army invasion. One advantage of relying on carrier-based power, according to Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat who chairs the Military Construction and Stockpiles Subcommittee, is that "we may be evicted [from land airbases] with a change of government, or not be permitted to operate even...
...largest Mafia gatherings since the celebrated Apalachin, N.Y., meeting in 1957 took place on Feb. 18 and 19 in Miami. Assembling on the beach near the Fontainebleau Hotel and in a closed restaurant, at least a score of top Mafiosi discussed gang affairs, including ways to blunt the FBI probe. In addition to Scotto, the investigation is chiefly aimed at two other powerful I.L. A. officials, George Barone and William Boyle, both of Miami...
...least half of the 491 Assembly seats. The result, former Premier Pierre Mendès France, a Socialist, warned last week, could be "chaos." Said he: "It would be an affront to the country to impose a government against the people's will." Barre's reply was blunt: "I don't understand Mendès France's argument. The same Frenchmen will vote in both rounds. There's an old saying in France: 'In the first round you criticize, in the second you choose.' " But this time there was a clear possibility that...