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Does Harkness ever become "a person?" No, but he comes closer to it than anyone else in Dealing. For the Crichtons don't bother to explore the real contours of the subculture. Which is too bad, because some of the people who live there merit attention. Unlike ghetto hard-drug pushers, college dealers are generally amateurs, or at most, semi-professionals. Some have sold their futures to the drugs they sell. But most go on living their ordinary lives, with cute incidental touches. Like the preppie dealers who boast they can tell you where the weed comes from after...
Cocktail parties are all right if you find one person and talk to him. Cocktail parties are all right if you find one painting and look at it. But why bother bringing paintings or people together? Do we put the Stein collection together only to look individually at Picasso's Cubist landmarks: his famous 1906 portrait of Gertrude or his Student with a Pipe...
...radical groups are largely splintered or defunct, their leadership out of school or underground. Most campus papers that were once mouthpieces for the movement have reverted to more dispassionate journalism. Others, like the Harvard Crimson, do not bother with editorials any more. The most visible political group at Dartmouth is a chapter of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom; it numbers about 15 members. Even women do not seem to care much for their liberation. A recent poll conducted by the University of Washington's campus paper produced the startling conclusion that those who wanted less news about Women...
This "Home, Home on the Delta" type predominates in USAID, but neither the Embassy nor USIA could survive without him. He is not bothered by contradictions between today's and tomorrow's official rationalizations for American actions, nor does he bother to construct claborate and doomed-to-fail personal justifications for his guilty participation, as does the liberal mentioned above, nor is he disturbed by such phenomena as the ubiquitous anonymous presence of CIA agents-"ghosts." When asked to justify the American presence in Laos, this cog is likely to respond with something like this: "Do you realize that before...
...fact that that one paved road stops seven kilometers from Vientiane when it reaches the American compound- which looks like nowhere so much as Ventura, California-does not seem to bother this...