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...understand the modern city and the people--"the corporation executives from Scarsdale"--who live in it. Arthur Schlesinger didn't like the speech because it included no "analysis" of how the war had been bad for the Great Society programs, and more generally because the President did not convey enough of a sense of the mess that he was leaving the country...
...covering letter, signed by Col. Pell, "The Case for ROTC at Harvard" is introduced as a "Department of Military Science position paper." Clearly, it was intended to convey much more than the personal opinion of Col. Pell. When Dean Glimp suggests (letter to CRIMSON, 10 January) that this document represents only Col. Pell "speaking as a man," he is belittling the significance of this elaborate memorandum. The entire package, which runs to nearly fifty pages, must be viewed as the official position of the U. S. Army ROTC Instructor Group at Harvard (Department of the Army...
...just sitting there doing nothing, which could support the suspicion that he is listening. So the visitor studiously exhibits what Goffman calls "civil inattention." Unable to avoid overhearing one side of the phone conversation, he feigns another activity-gazing out the window, ostentatiously lighting and puffing a cigarette-thus conveying or seeking to convey the impression that his attention is directed elsewhere...
...something I have rarely seen." To the National Society of Film Critics in the U.S., she was a brilliant actress in the year's best film, Persona; to international audiences, she is the latest Scandinavian beauty who-like Garbo or Ingrid Bergman or Ingrid Thulin-manages to convey a mind beneath the skin...
...girl friend, Shirley McGuinn, who lives in London. He desperately awaits their return letters. He can see the mail arrive in the court yard, but he must then wait for the guard to deliver it, usually in a batch, days later. His own letters, guarded and understated, convey the agony of isolation. "You often say you hope I am keeping cheerful," he recently wrote his mother. "It would be quite dishonest to say I was cheerful. After more than a year in one room, it simply is not possible. Somehow, God knows how, one manages to endure it, that...