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...crashing out in triumph, to throw up a finger, then another and another, and to know that with every one the orchestra would bound forward into a still more ecstatic surge and sweep, to fling oneself forward, and for a moment or so keep everything still, frozen, in the hollow of one's hand, and then to set them all singing and soaring in one final sweep, with the cymbals clashing at every flicker of one's eyelid, to sound the grand Amen...
...loner, he singlehanded tried to halt the threat of one kind of annihilation with that of another and died as he had lived, alone, troubled, but strangely sympathetic. What began as a righteous cause for this polite and abstemious antinuclear advocate became an obsession and ultimately ended in a hollow if not insane act of protest. Yet before his bluff was called, Mayer, 66, a balding drifter, managed to frighten the city of Washington and stage a blatant and bizarre act of terrorism at the Washington Monument, less than a mile from the White House...
Most economists were surprised by the sharp jump in joblessness. Says George Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.: "All claims that the recession is ending now ring rather hollow." Perry fears that unemployment may go on rising into the spring...
...such explanations ring Hollow. Already most campus policies of any import are made behind closed doors--by secretive, unaccountable bodies like the Corporation and the Faculty Council. Housing policies, too, have in practice been quietly settled upon by assistant dean Thomas A. Dingman '67 and others' inconsiderate University Hall officials. That undergraduates have been shut out of much decision-making on student life issues is as good a reason as any why the renovations planned for this summer were executed so slowly and clumsily, why students are still assigned to North House "sink closets" in the spring, and why grave...
...assessment: 1) Jewish psychological defense mechanisms, not radical idealism, sparked what turned out to be a valuable new critique of American society and 2) when the original leadership gave way to a largely non-Jewish contingent, a different and more pernicious set of selfish motives drove SDS toward a hollow and violent revolutionary doctrine. Startling at first, these conclusions seem less remarkable after separating out the social science jargon and comparing the actual reasoning to existing theories...