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...golden hair still swooped provocatively over one eye, her skintight, beaded gown glittered as brightly as ever, and if her face had begun to show her 66 years, her voice remained full of the old husky magic. Indeed, when Marlene Dietrich returned to Broadway for a six-week engagement, the only thing that was different from last year's show was the opening number, a torchy ballad called Look Me Over Closely. Not that anybody in the theater waits for her invitation...
Andrew Jamison seems to think that the Harvard community should be chastised for not submitting docilely to the spectacle of boredom and inarticulateness presented by Dietrich Wessel. It seems to me that Mr. Wessel's "history of German SDS" could have been better rendered by Michael Walzer in twenty minutes, or by a competent poet or film-maker in ten. Mr. Wessel was a failure as a rhetorician and as a disseminator of radical thought: that was the overriding reality of the Sept. 27 fiasco in Lowell Lec. He was simply out of touch with the mainstream spirit...
...hard to believe that Mr. Jamison is not putting us on: does he really feel that the tedious, humorless thought purveyed by Dietrich Wessel and by the more calcified thinkers of the radical left is worth an hour and more of our Friday evenings? It is even harder to believe that Mr. Jamison could be "embarrassed to go to Harvard" because of the audience's reactions: I felt, with every burst of laughter and derision that night, that we were a healthy body defending itself against strangulation. May our laughter and derision be stronger for the next Dietrich Wessel. John...
...DIETRICH WESSEL sat on the side of the stage in Lowell Lecture Hall Friday night smoking a cigarette, staring at the audience in disbelief. A leader in German SDS, Wessel had spoken for about an hour on his movement, its goals, its background, its accomplishments. Midway through his speech, the hissing had started. The people who had been talking in the back began to hiss. They didn't want to hear Wessel. They were bored, they held up watches to tell Wessel that he was taking too much time. This was his first encounter with a Harvard audience, and Wessel...
...pseudo-radicals merely talk about the system and the war. Perhaps it takes people on all levels of commitment to bring about a truly radical movement. But it's hard for me to believe that radicalism is at all helped or strengthened by the kind of people who hissed Dietrich Wessel on Friday night. --ANDREW JAMISON...