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...present political turmoil: I feel strongly that our political trend is headed in a worrisome direction. The problems are complex: guaranteeing our national security, realizing our modernization and prosperity, and preventing any element from dividing our nation. I feel as though we are being forced to drift aimlessly, gripped by wrong ideas [such as permissiveness and lack of discipline] and totally disregarding the realities. On the question of when martial law should be lifted, I regret to say that such questions are beyond the realm of my duties...
...teams expect more and more that they will have a shot at the golden ring on the national sports merry-go-round, the pressures and the frustration mount. It is a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle that must be dealt with now, before too many more athletes drift throught the Ivy League--and through Harvard--retaining a bitter aftertaste for college life. Such disillusion should not be passively endured, especially not in the Ivy League, where you are told to expect Utopia...
...wave of writing reform that is sweeping through schools, colleges and businesses all over the U.S. In the age of talk shows, tape recorders, telephonitis and declining educational standards, the clearly written word is swiftly becoming a lost art. The many new courses attempting to correct that drift are concerned not with "creative" writing but with something almost as rare: clear, usable, everyday prose...
...contemplation of the way disorder violently intrudes upon the blithe assumptions of ordinary men that the world is a logical place were not a serious theme (see Kafka). Or that his insistence on the omnipresence of evil, even in the most commonplace settings, did not square with the basic drift of thoughtful philosophers (see Hannah Arendt). Or that the decline of the traditional moral order, supported by society's most basic institutions, did not throw everyone?not just Hitchcock's heroes, who were so often forced to run both from cops and crooks?back on their own desperate resources...
Transit charts six major characters as they journey through the space of thirty years. They intersect, gravitate around each other, spin away into lonely emptiness while a dozen minor characters drift around these central constellations. They construct galaxies and float apart with the humble wonder we feel when we muse on the infinity of the sky, in oceanic silence, and trace the impersonal yet poignant movement of the stars. Hazzard sees things in two planes, as both personal emotion and tragedy, life through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed--almost mythologized...