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...long sustained Star Trek. It features as ghastly a group of interstellar pirates, the Klingons, as ever entered the star log, plus a spectacularly self-destructive planet and plenty of technically adroit and sometimes witty special effects. These are classic directorial occasions, and Nimoy rises to them with fervor, in effect beaming his film up onto a higher pictorial plane than either of its predecessors. One might not want to have the Enterprise crew take up permanent residence on that sober and lofty level...
...familiar explanations cannot explain this intensity. The draft was not really a threat to wealthy college students, and the tightening job market would have hardly inspired such revolutionary fervor...
...second mistake was to prefer a clear conscience to any meaningful conception of politics. The anti-war movement was gestated in miniscule groups of moral protest, like the Boston Resistance, with a quasi-religious fervor for martyrdom. For many of us, it was simply enough to be right. So to the extent we were moved to action, we were interested not in convincing or compromise, but rather only in the direct expression of our political beliefs. The passion for directness was a kind of style. We dressed in our politics, and we wanted all who met us to confront them...
...demonstrations are far from dead at Harvard. Most are the annual protests divestiture and "Take Back the Night" marches continue-al-belt with a more less fervor. But not all are so habitual. This year, for example, students took to the street spontaneously to protests the U.S. invasion of Grenada and closer to home: the newsletter of the Pi Eta Speakers Club, which used violent and degrading imagery to describe women...
...about a Black child who had integrated a Southern school virtually on her own. And although there was disagreement in the audience about which one of the two principal speakers had rambled and which one was right on the mark, each received standing ovations--Clark's with the special fervor due a hero...