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...Fruitless Wrangling...
...brightest of the big apes, the chimpanzee may be man's nearest intellectual neighbor. How near? Science has long sought to discover in the intelligent chimp the gift of language, the incomparable skill that distinguishes mankind from all other living things. Until now, that search has been fruitless; the chimp lacks the capacity for speech that is innate in every normal human infant. But in Psychology Today magazine, Psychologist David Premack of the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrates that the chimpanzee can converse with man in ways other than by the tongue...
Despite the impression that the Communists run their war from some sort of E-Ring in the jungles, COSVN is actually a staff of some 2,400 people who are widely dispersed and highly mobile−too mobile to please a U.S. brigade that has been toiling in fruitless quest of COSVN for three weeks. Says a weary intelligence analyst: "We're still looking for the guy in the COSVNT shirt...
...admit the timeless creativity of Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Bach. A musical convention is a point of departure rather than a creative surrender. Stravinsky's music has always been imitative in the Aristotelian sense (which is the only sense), and always classical, never "neo-classical." "Neo-classical" is a fruitless neologism, a fetid, indurating bit of synthetic classification which obscures the music as it sustains useless discussion. A work of art, for Stravinsky, is an object to be crafted, expressive of immutable, universal forms, rather than a personal drama of expiation and self-explanation, expressive only of idiosyncrasy. Like all classical...
...untidily and unsatisfactorily as it began, the legal inquiry into the incident at Chappaquiddick came to an abrupt end last week. After a few hours of fruitless probing, a grand jury appointed to investigate the death last July of Mary Jo Kopechne adjourned in frustration without clarifying any of the mystery that still surrounds her death...