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...frequently irrelevant to the dissenter. He answers that law does not always provide justice; that there are good and bad laws, and that the governed sometimes detect the difference before their governors. Before his unhappy resignation as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, John Gardner observed: "Once the grip of tradition or apathy or oppression has been broken and people can hope for a better life, their aspirations soar. But the institutions that must satisfy these aspirations change at the same old glacial speed...
Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...people who choose to hold them, can distort perception; can modify and magnify, enrich and cheapen, help and hurt. Cambridge does things to events and phenomena, and it takes no poet's sensibility to realize the fact. But last night, one could feel more comfortable in the grip of the Brattle Square time warp, because six actors had performed two acts of songs, speeches, and sketches, and because those acts became a uniquely successful artistic explication of what Cambridge is about...
...sensibilities, the very quality of both our waking and sleeping hours, are all formed largely by people with no more artistic conscience or intelligence than a cumquat. If the happy few do not study them at least as seriously as they study Andy Warhol, then they will lose their grip on the American reality...
...spiritually displaced person-Shmuel Yosef Agnon, 79, won a Nobel Prize in 1966. An unhurried Jewish anecdotist, a patient sketcher of modest, baffled characters, a leisurely Talmudic dialectician, Agnon is not the sort of writer to have spectacular impact. But he has the cumulative aftereffect and the stubbornly expanding grip on common experience that measure a substantial talent...