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However, as is indicated by the prevalence of dissatisfaction throughout all strata of society, only a small minority of people have discovered this vital sense of purpose. The rest are in a state of drift in which they whirl in a gyre of idle pleasures, mistaking each new sensation as the incarnation of true happiness. "But pleasure is just the shadow of happiness." Ali said, for it fails to incorporate "the very secret of life, the desire to achieve something...
Many Cambodians would applaud. The somewhat mystical Premier has succeeded admirably in unifying the country, but students, intellectuals and other early supporters of the regime are beginning to complain of drift and disorganization. The government is just barely holding its own against the 50,000 Communist troops in Cambodia, and it is slowly losing ground in its struggle against inflation and other symptoms of war. Lately, stories of indolence and corruption in the Cabinet have been circulating in the capital. Crisis or no, it was, as one Western diplomat put it, "a good time to change the government...
...radicals who did drift in were taken aback. Said James S. Kunen, a veteran of the 1968 Columbia bust and author of The Strawberry Statement: "I didn't think they could find this many straight kids in America...
There is simply no excuse for continuing to drift around in an aimless, alienated, cynical, despairing fog. It is not enough to be against the war in thought only. Every person who professes to be against the war must act to end America's participation in it. The spring offers a number of opportunities for people not only to demonstrate their opposition to administration policies, but to broaden the base of opposition, and to intensify its character...
Continental Drift. The new idea stems from discoveries that in the past few years have drastically revised classical geophysical theories. Although it was once thought that the ocean floor has remained stationary and relatively unchanged for billions of years, scientists are now certain that it is continually spreading and being renewed with fresh material welling up from a 47,000-mile-long chain of volcanically active undersea ridges. As this new rock from deep within the earth's mantle moves slowly away from the mid-ocean ridges, it carries the continents along, thereby providing the mechanism for continental drift...