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...academic jargon and propaganda techniques? Their dead weight has a consistently bad effect on the otherwise vital and aggressive street style of many of the essays and manifestoes contained in Raise Race, etc. Sometimes he attempts to lighten the load by adding asides-"if you can dig that," after phrases like "we hate as of a legitimate empirical reaction." The result is an embarrassing self-consciousness. Yet self-consciousness is what at this stage Jones' Black Power mission is really all about. "We are self-conscious now," he writes, "because we are trying to break from slavery...
...format that has become tiresomely predictable in the hands of others, Dick Cavett at 34 has produced the best mixture of literate repartee, information, entertainment and urbane wit to be found on late-night television. Those who dig good-natured buffoonery and the chitchat of West Coast showfolk go for Competitor Merv Griffin. Viewers who want to see briskly organized quasi-journalistic interviews watch David Frost's excellent syndicated talk show, a two-time Emmy Award winner. Those who tune in Carson do so mainly to watch a consummate comedian scoring off guests who might as well be dummies...
BELMONT PARK, Elmont. N. Y.- Pedro Baptista and Canonero II, his Venezuelan wonder horse, double-handedly drew a crowd of well wishers. They have made the modest little stall 109B a red-hot tourist attraction for trippers from all over who dig the idea of a Triple Crown winner...
...someone finally asked why we should stay in Vietnam. And all that Kahn could dig up was something to the effect that "there'd be a bloodbath if we pulled out." Familiars? Aside from the obvious six-year bloodbath which he'd rather ignore, Kahn's reply strongly suggests that he's against bloodbaths - a moral argument if ever there was one! For Herman Kahn wants to play it both ways. His moral sensibilities are most upset about what "the Communists" might do, or about the highly doubtful events at Hue. But the morality of free-fire zones...
...friend as saying, among other embarrassing maxims, that "It's hard for you to imagine, when you're in love, ever being in love with anybody else." So, I guess, it is-but, if you're in the market for this kind of drivel, you might as well dig out your high school yearbook and get the real thing...