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...highest working level possible for discussion between the President of the U.S. and the statesmen of Europe who wish to participate." The White House withheld judgment on Brandt's suggestion. However, Nixon has resisted group summitry in the past, believing it offers too much temptation for posturing and fruitless debate...
...this fruitless ambiguity is made worse by the realistic tone of the narration, which is totally at odds with the content. George Orwell persuades us easily in Animal Farm that beasts talk, but Berger fails to establish a mood in which it is believable that larger and stronger men cower before swaggering women, and that an entire society has lost all knowledge of normal...
None of these ideas are as yet majority views in the Western world, and they may never be. They may provoke nothing more than bitter and fruitless confrontation, sundering consensus and paralyzing productive thought. Their critique of progress and action could well lead to a new quietism, a readiness to accept things as they are rather than to work for things as they might be. In a more hopeful vein, the interaction of the alternate views with prevailing notions may prove to be a beneficial force, leading to a re-examination and refinement of basic ideas about man and society...
Hesse, even in his latter days of so-called realism and classicism, refused to let go entirely of his fruitless, banal recherche du temps perdu. The last piece included in this volume, "The Interrupted Class," drifts at times into the same melancholy desire for the carefree, innocent days of youth. But here some resolution of the conflict between innocence and experience finally appears: Hesse declares innocent youth a sham. While it's no transcendence into Blake's realm of "organized innocence," as one might expect from the spiritualist Hesse, it is a sign of some growth, however late...
After months of fruitless discussions between students and administrators, militant action taken at Boston State College earlier this week prompted the commitment by the school's administration to the rights of women on campus...