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...laid on its orientation, which is definitely (almost exclusively) to those of us who are often stoned. Being obviously the work of someone who "must have been stoned" (often). it invites the reader to do likewise and rather effectively excludes the reader who doesn't. That is the tragic flaw of Grapefruit : that it is not for everyone, that it fails to embrace...
WITH ALL this going for it, it is a shame that The Harvard Strike has a flaw: much of it ?s 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 much the same...
WHILE the Chicago conspiracy trial has casily taken its place on the list of Decisive Political Events of the last few years, it has suffered one major flaw as a political rallying point. In the age of televised history-when millions of clectronic witnesses have personally seen conventions, assassinations, riots, and marches-the trial remained a basically private affair. The TV cameras that made it to the moon could not enter Judge Julius Hoffman's District Court. And so the public was left to feed on the daily press reports, all of which seemed to begin. In its most tumuhuons...
...book's primary value is not as a warning to those who already share Cowan's sentiments. The same subjective passion that may flaw the book as history makes it a uniquely persuasive political statement. The Making of an Un-American owes its uniqueness as a polemic to the fact that it is first and foremost about people, which (as often as we may forget) is also what politics is about. Cowan's development as a human being, which encompasses his development as a political activist, becomes all-important to the reader. Parts of the book read like a diary...
...should not intervene when other parts of Government have recently acted. Arguing that regulations going into effect this summer will give welfare clients the same rights as the court ruling, Burger rapped the majority's action as "another manifestation of the now-familiar constitutionalizing syndrome: once some presumed flaw is observed, the court then eagerly accepts the invitation to find a constitutionally 'rooted' remedy. We ought to allow evolutionary processes at various administrative levels to experiment...