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...return, disconsolate, to The Crimson. I have spent more than an hour roaming from house to house, in search of a party where I feel comfortable. Then I realize I do this every weekend. I throw my reporter's notebook away into the dustbin of history...
...world, America has lost some of its radiant pride of place. Japan has risen. Europe is organizing itself into a new collective power. The Soviet Union is struggling to escape the dustbin of history. Gorbachev, a magician of much elan, attempts to rescind the hoax of Communism without denouncing its idea. It is fascinating to watch a smart man trying to defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence...
...then you see places like Harlem. I was shocked. The empty, burned buildings. On Broadway, very poor people sleeping on the street. In South Africa, when I was hungry and far away from home, someone would always take me in. I would not have to eat from a dustbin...
...intervals, the author lowers his fists, but much of the anecdota reconsiders a series of onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under...
...once again be portholes, and ceilings will be overheads. Lehman, a naval aviator, also objects to recruiting pitches like "The Army wants to join you," feeling that such lines convey a "sense of apology" about the military. Says Lehman: "We're throwing that sort of thinking into the dustbin...