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...fairness to Steven Kelman, his book does have some attractive aspects. In his overly-ample castigation of student radicals. Kelman covers every danger they pose to free society. Kelman's journal of his freshman year is appealing and disarmingly honest. And the book's cover is exceptionally clever...
...tone and substance. In the Capital, the stated issues of the demonstrators were revolutionary; they could not be supported by McCarthy workers who had been clubbed in Chicago. And, also in Washington, the police were smarter. There were no wholesale overreactions by the men in blue; they were tactically clever...
Overall, the new album is good McCartney-clever, varied, full of humor -but it is nothing to match his past pop classics, particularly Yesterday, Michele and Hey, Jude. His lyrics are best when least pretentious, as in Junk, a kind of sentimental word jamboree: "Bye, bye, says the sign in the shop window/ Why, Why, says the junk in the yard." Maybe I'm Amazed, however, is a pale echo of the choral sumptuousness of McCartney's The End, which served as the coda to Abbey Road, the hit 1969 Beatle album...
...Reverse. "The bitch-goddess, success" was a phrase coined by William James. What Mary Orr, who penned the original story, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who scripted the film, and Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who wrote the book for Applause, have done is to reverse James and produce a clever little parable on the success goddess-bitchiness. It may be clever, but it is far from valid. Cynicism is sentimentality in reverse and equally untrue. Of all places, the theater, with its intense critical scrutiny, verifies the copybook maxim that success must be earned and that only merit will sustain...
...schools, and some others have become skeptical of integration as a panacea. But most blacks still want it, or at least demand a genuine choice in the matter (see EDUCATION). Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Washington Research Project, found Nixon's "appeal to black separatists' feelings" clever but irrelevant. "In effect," she said, "this is a separate but equal policy, nothing more than an endorsement of continued segregation." As New York Psychologist Kenneth Clark saw it, "This is a denuding, a significant slowing down of the momentum that has been building all too slowly since...