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...IMPORTANT to distinguish the problems of form and function in Mather House. As a collection of masses, the building succeeds admirably. The tower balances with Peabody Terrace, the lowrise balances with Dunster House, and the idea of an interior space gives the whole affair a kind of lumbering cosmic equilibrium. Terra cotta was the original choice for the exterior faces, and the texture which it would have provided might have prevented the tower from looking like a rouged waffle-iron...
Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, expressed concern that taking such minor steps might damage a larger curriculum reform effort. David Reisman, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences and member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, replied that the CUE's concerns were "every bit as cosmic" as Hoffmann's and that "this miniscule reform" will not better that committee's larger efforts...
...intervention anywhere, it invites charges of hypocrisy. No world diplomat, even in the U.S., really believes that South Viet Nam is as vital to world stability as is Berlin, or that Laos is as crucial as the Middle East. Observes a White House official: "Politicians go for the cosmic explanation. But they should have learned that the credibility gap follows the cosmic explanation like night follows day." To be credible, a superpower can only exercise its might when its survival or its stabilizing influence against an opposing superpower is really at stake, or when its action is clearly within...
...certain kind of self-conscious hip, and New York film-makers specialize in almost preternatural disaffection. The film critics in that town, who often address their reviews to moot points raised by colleagues, frequently succumb to sinful postures, not the worst of which is seeing one-self as cosmic arbiter of good taste. If the audiences which attended the critics' showings are any index of the stance which such enlightened viewers take towards movies, then most modern films are being scrutinized through rose-tinted glasses, darkly. In any event, some of the films are especially good, some are especially interesting...
...satisfying in itself, suggests that Amis is going to be able to do remarkable things with it. One English critic has even maintained that Amis is turning into a satirist whose target is the biggest establishment of them all: creation as a whole. Amis is a foe of such cosmic statements. But he admits that he aspires to a form of "seriocomedy," a combination of "dark stuff with high spirits...