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...brief and scintillating piece on Henry Miller that tells all anyone will ever need to know about that writer; and a short story called Something for Bradshaw's Tombstone, which prefigures much that Graham Greene would later have to say about the American's ability to wreak havoc on "backward" peoples...
...THRUST of these essays is to redefine pluralism, the oft-invoked rationale for inaction or moderate quiescence, as a disruptive and revolutionary force. Pluralism makes for moral havoc. It means that the state, especially the liberal state, is not the most important arena of ethical life. Parties, sects, and unions have the kind of autonomy which can enjoin members disobedience to the state. With admirable balance. Walzer fleshes out the competing obligations-to the group as a whole, to the other members, to ideals. to civility, and sometimes to revolutionary violence...
...Unless the intellectual community rises in indignation over the plight of the coal miner, there's going to be hell in the coal fields of the United States," Yablonski said. "Miners have the power to raise havoc in this country and they're not afraid...
Alvord's unexpected win gave the Crimson a comfortable lead after some tense moments earlier. With a chilling 35 m.p.h. wind playing havoc in the javelin and discus, Princeton jolted the Harvard pre-meet calculations by matching the Crimson point for point...
WEDNESDAY night's riot in the Square was no incidental marring of an afternoon of peaceful protest. Nor was it the handwork of an isolated clique of anarchists bent on wreaking havoc for reasons of sheer perversity. The number of people that became actively involved and the depth of the anger, fear, and doubt that it touched off in most of us demand that we find less simplistic explanations...