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...enlightened early--a senior at the time of the Strike, it proved terribly difficult to unburden myself of the delusion inculcated by four years that my education was worth something). Perhaps he selflessly devoted his last three years to missionary work among those naive and misguided souls hurtling headlong into the depraved trap of intellectual achievement. He should in such a case be applauded, since be sacrificed his own purity (certainly his virtue would have been less compromised had he transferred to an unaccredited junior college, or more righteously still, quit altogether and thumbed his nose at academe) that others...
...insinuating--is that you judge too impetuously and are too quick to rush to judgment (Crimson 2-2-72). Since you gratuitously advertise yourself as a scholar, you might have waited for my piece--which was promised at the end of the Crimson interview--to appear before your headlong rush into obscurantist, peremptory certitudes. Not, I notice from your rigid cold war stance, that it would have made much difference to your ossified dogmatism on the matter. Only it might have made your tenuous pretension to scholarship a bit less suspect...
...wife when they are forced into close quarters--falls on its face. Chaplin's use of the camera is downright unimaginative, as are the sets. The one famous exception is the factory, and its expressionistic construction of cogs upon cogs and wheels within wheels. When the factory worker slides headlong down the conveyor belt into the bowels of the factory, the image of a human being slithering through the cogs graphically fixes an image of machinery's devastating psychological effects. The machine becomes a vast abstraction, fueling itself with people...
...incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids, they wouldn't be here. The community uses Juvenile Hall for a dumping ground." The hall's resident doctor scorned her lack of credentials and said, "What you must realize is that by the time these children get to us, they've been through so much that there...
...Kennedy campaign, the dark and light sides shimmer together in a radical instability. Robert's headlong drive through the 1968 primaries often threatened to turn into something like the riot at Rudolph Valentino's funeral. Even now, in his noncampaign, Ted Kennedy knows what superstar's confusions he can cause. Oregon's Republican Senator Robert Packwood remembers a trip he took with Ted to some hospitals and health centers in Chicago and Cleveland as part of their work for the Senate health subcommittee of which Kennedy is chairman...