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...with existing organizations, taking advantage of qualities of ambition and self-interest, all to mold a truly democratic organization. As many segments as possible of a given area must participate in the mini-pluralism which leads to a healthy aspect towards growth. When an issue demands confrontation "calm, sound, factual, pithy, and sincere testimony" must document the proposals of the local organization...
...Masters a few hundred dollars as well as some small sense of accomplishment. One by one, though, MC's friends lose sight of their musical dream, and in the end he goes alone to New York to try to crack the big time. The book is at its factual best when it peers into the frenetic world of amateur hours and musical competitions, and follows the trials of children trying to make tapes and master the techniques of professional recording...
...least one Harvard boy, and he is still a boy, reacted to this environment is the subject of the following, often factual, account...
...CRIMSON, Life. and McCall's all greeted The Harvard Strike by four reporters from WHRB. Harvard Radio (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, $6.95, paper $3.95) as the clearest, most factual and complete, exposition of the events of April 1969. Nonetheless, the CRIMSON said, " The Harvard Strike has a flaw: much of it is unreadable. Through a number of verbal and conceptual errors, the authors have smothered parts of their story in gooey, impenetrable prose. 'Boring' is too simple a term for the complex problems that plague the book, but readers may find the effect the same." Alumni with a truly unquenchable thirst...
...strike, relate it to ensuing events, speculate on its relevance to the "youth movement," and bundle up the whole affair in a neat little package. We have suffered through the compressed political and sociological tract that demands a remarkable suspension of basic intellectual instincts; muddled through the straight-forward factual account whose tedious details could only interest those who were deeply involved in them; and marveled at the bizarre near-hysteria of the participant who later bared his soul in print...