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...considerably busier than President Johnson, who spoke at four, notably about peace. At George Washington University, Secretary of State Dean Rusk defended the Administration's policy in Viet Nam. At West Point, General Earle Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, declared that the global mess was "not hopeless," while at Long Island University, Interior Secretary Stewart Udall sounded pretty hopeless about the urban mess. At the University of Iowa, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz remarked that "commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more...
...think anyone... can say to anyone else that he knows exactly how the South Vietnamese, with our support, will work out this contest and this unfinished political story... I believe that the situation in Vietnam is serious, is dangerous, is critical. I do not believe that it is hopeless and it seems to me that that is the precise problem...
...liver stops working, he soon lapses into a deep coma and usually dies within a few weeks. Drugs offer little help, and transplants are all but hopeless. Even if the rejection mechanism could be overcome, there would still be the crucial problem of supply, which can only be met by cadavers; unlike kidney donors, who have a second kidney to keep them going, no man can donate his liver and live. But the liver has a remarkable ability to regenerate damaged cells and rebuild lost tissue-an ability which suggested to University of Kentucky Surgeon Ben Eiseman that...
Alberto Moravia is one of the leading money-changers in the fashionable temple of anxiety. He specializes in counterfeit intellectual currency: man is a hopeless victim of his own technology; sex is the only natural act remaining to man; life is just awful. It was awful in Moravia's early novels (The Woman of Rome, Conjugal Love), but somehow it was described with sensuous excitement. In his recent books (The Empty Canvas, Roman Tales), the excitement has progressively decelerated, and in the present collection of 41 short stories Moravia has attained what might most charitably be described...
...most of my own business," Marvin explains. "And I have a fear of imitating myself. You've always got to come up with something new. Otherwise the audience is going to say, 'You finked out, Charlie.' " Marvin hasn't, so far, even in the most hopeless of moments. In one movie, after killing everyone in sight, he is approached by two cops. Unarmed and badly wound ed, Marvin does the only thing left: he cocks his right hand and points his finger bang-bang-bang at the cops. Hardcore Marvin fans figure that the loss...