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They will eschew what they call "the bankrupt New Left technique of single issue organizing" in favor of linking the war to a variety of local problems--welfare, inflation and particularly Cambridge's shortage of low-income housing. They hope local residents will then organize to solve these problems and, at the same time, express their opposition to the war. The details of this organization are still vague, but members of the group have suggested putting pressure on the Cambridge City Council to pass a rent control ordinance, and beginning a weekly newspaper to compete with the Cambridge Chronicle...
Unfortunately, in his effort to eschew the two extremes of immediate withdrawal and intensified fighting, Galbraith has created a plan that will please few. The one point on which hawks and doves can agree is that the fighting should be ended as rapidly as possible. Neither group would complacently tolerate an extended, seemingly endless, defensive war. Much of Galbraith's proposal--his appeal for an end to the bombing and for a disassociation from General Ky and his coterie--is obviously laudable, but, because it does not hold out the possibility of an imminent termination...
...baseball players, appointed for writers who Articulate the Concerns of their Time, whose books are eventually parsed to death in intellectual history seminars and who are very thoroughly forgotten by everyone who neither pays nor is paid to read them. Such are Barbara Garson and her skitlet MacBird (I eschew the exclamation point!)--a document, a gadget, a pseudo-cerebral mummers' play in moral blackface. The fact that MacBird's concerns are nearly as unmemorable as its era may prove to be won't modify the play's appeal for future historians; nor can it extend MacBird's predictable stage...
What is completely irresponsible is for Republicans who support our political traditions to ostracize SDS from the community and to "eschew all political contact" with it. Our system is based on the free interchange of ideas and open discussion. Since SDS represents a large minority at Harvard, we have a compelling responsibility to meet with it and to defend our system, not to force SDS outside...
Most singers seem to agree that men, especially tenors, ought to eschew sex before performing, but that it does a world of good for the girls' voices. One Metropolitan Opera tenor is said to abstain for ten days prior to and ten days after each performance; his distraught wife says he sings every ten days. Ezio Pinza, on the other hand, held the belief that "the night before, it's terrible, but just before going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love...