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...Mailer's work was barren of the personal grasses of childhood, while Styron poked in the dusts of his youthful past until one sensed that it haunted him in the night, blew grain-by-gain through his soul; sandpapered it. Mailer wrote of sex in terms of a fifteen-round fight in which red peppers were joyously thumbed into the other fellow's eyes: he saw fucking as vital confrontations. Styron wrote of how sweet and good it had been before the bloom faded, preaching that the bloom would always-surely, definitely-fade. "In all of Styron's work there...
That's how I feel about the verdict in this trial. Lonnie McLucas was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, which carries a maximum sentence of fifteen years, and declared not guilty of the three other more serious charges for which he was tried. But a possible fifteen years in jail is also serious; and a compromise verdict doesn't change the fact that Lonnie McLucas was being forced to play a life-or-death game by someone else's rules...
...been 50 dead. I would have immediately replaced the Premier." When replacement time did come, Pompidou learned of it from France-Soir Editor Pierre Lazareff, with whom he was lunching that day. "Well, what are you going to do when you're no longer here?" Lazareff began briskly. Fifteen minutes later the Elysée Palace called with the confirmation...
...Satirists H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan published a book called The American Credo. It contained a chrestomathy of shibboleths, prejudices, common beliefs and unexamined truisms held sacred by millions-"That it snowed every Christmas down to fifteen years ago," for example, or "that oysters are a great aphrodisiac." The Credo badly needs updating. In 50 years, America has become a more divided land, and its favorite truisms are less firmly fixed. But a lot of cliché consensus can still be found. In the public interest, TIME herewith proposes a few articles of faith for a revised edition...
...Shorty after the disciplining of 138 University Hall occupiers last June, the Faculty voted approval of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities and delegated virtually all disciplinary authority to it. The CRR was modeled closely after the Committee of Fifteen, a student-Faculty committee which meted out the first punishments. But the CRR-unlike the earlier disciplinary committee-was enabled to act with summary power, and thus lost much of theacceptance it might have gained if it had been more responsive to, and representative of, all members of the University...