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...over a century later, with a continent conquered, plundered, and replundered, Americans continue to lurch fitfully through the confines of their pitifully lengthened lives. We no longer smile. Our institutional jesters fail to amuse us. When the President invades and bombs Cambodia we greet the announcement with a nervous giggle and call it an "incursion." And the women come and go, of course, talking of our recent "entry into Cambodia...
Slater, chairman of the sociology department at Brandeis, views with increasing alarm the irrationally strong reactions we experience toward dissident "blacks, hippies, and student radicals." Contrasting "our intense fear of small and comparatively unarmed minorities" with the cheerful, schizoid blandness with which we greet the possibility of a nuclear holocaust or an ecological Armaggedon (or perhaps last night's neighborhood stabbing and the girl's annoying screams), he is very troubled about what sick things must be happening within ourselves...
Awake Nights. San Clemente is doing its best to take a resident President in stride. "I personally think it's kind of small-town hinky-dink," says Mayor Evans of the big welcome banners that used to greet Nixon on arrival. Still. Nixon watching is a full-time occupation for many. Mrs. Doris Dennis, a San Clemente housewife, last year waited for two hours at Nixon's helicopter pad in hopes of taking his picture, and was doubly rewarded when he shook her hand. "After that, I wrote Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, and I told them that they...
...watched, the King danced, awkwardly, like a jewel-encrusted bear. Three times he fired his flintlock into the air, and was answered by the volleys of 400 muskets. Then he lumbered across the field, his mouth filled with green leaves, symbolizing his identification with the earth, to greet Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and the other official visitors...
...scientific probing-whether American or Soviet-has entailed extravagant, self-interested government appropriations at the cost of basic human needs. As tens of millions go hungry within their respective borders, each country spends tens of billions of dollars to launch their ambitious missiles, those huge, prodding figures that greet each other across an empty...