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...morning of May 11, a bleary-eyed Harvard Strike Steering Committee passed a statement that summarized the tense four hours of discussion that had gone before. Committee members were haggard and unanimously anxious to go to bed, but we were still in full, rational possession of the anger and sense of displacement induced by the mass meeting we had sponsored earlier in the evening. Muddled and tormented by a defective connecting sound system, the mass meeting stumbled its way through about 5 per cent of the planned agenda to do little more than disqualify the university as a target...
...said that the haggard man pictured was a 21-year-old "strungout" on speed. A headline under the picture said, "Happy 21st Birthday, Johnny." The ad stated that the man had started taking speed in pill form and then graduated to shooting methedrine...
...arrived in Stratford from Oxford on a Monday morning and was told by the testy, haggard girl at the ticket window that no seats were available for the next week at least. Hence my presence that evening in the ragged, boundlessly hopeful line of ticket vultures which forms every evening to snatch up any reserved tickets which are not claimed. That night it was not hard...
...others. But it hasn't worked that way. The urbane upper-middle class of the coasts ridicules Nixon's mumbling about the silent majority. In Alabama, when a kid from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close to the White House we forget that four times as many people have attended college football games...
Like many an ultrasophisticated man, Greene is at his most persuasive when evoking the provocative memories of youth, particularly in a famous essay, "The Lost Childhood," which dwells on the numerous delights of childhood reading. H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, Captain Gilson's The Pirate Aeroplane, Anthony (The Prisoner of Zenda] Hope's Sophy of Kravonia and Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan were among Greene's favorites. The shape of villainy, the sense of impending doom soon intrude. Captain Gilson's book was dominated by a bad "Yankee...