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...problem facing the new head coach will not be mustering two strong starting units, but finding the strongest combination of personnel. It is a seemingly enviable task, but in reality it is one which can breed discontent...
...rise of student and intellectual radicalism as a major phenomenon of the second half of the 1960's. Many radical theorists pointed to the seemingly enduring character of quiescence and acquiescence of the 1950's as a reflection of the ability of an affluent consumer-goods oriented capitalism to breed "contented cows." But just as the period of overwhelming passivity came to an end, the period of aggressive activism also will end, if past history tells us anything. And when that happens, it will be totally unexpected by radicals and conservatives alike, much as the decline of the Klan surprised...
America still contains hushed placesbeaches, mountains, snowy woods where a man on foot can find the old communion with nature. Now those oases have suddenly become vulnerable to a new breed of vehicles that are unbounded by roads or rules...
...fairy-tale, slyly parodies history. It unmasks in a Bavarian setting the rise of a parvenn power-maniac, played by Michael York, as a cool mastery of perversion and murder. Angela Lansbury as the Countess von Ornstein nostalgically bewails the passing of "real men"-that stalwart Germanic breed in direct lineage from Attila the Hun and Barbarossa. In a world of "upstarts, the American tourists and plastic dirndls," she craves submission to a genuinely phallic male like Conrad. She also craves money...
Episcopal minister S. Lester Ralph, recently elected mayor of Somerville, told me that he felt that clergymen politicians were an untapped source for relatively "dispassionate" political service. He felt that the public would find the nationally emerging new breed acceptable because there is no danger of a church takeover of the civil order, the church being "so clearly in retreat" in society...