Word: indirections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more disclosure is required from corporations, they will be reinforced in their attempts--or moved to first attempts--to make improvements in their equal hiring, environmental, and political policies. This type of disclosure will submit corporations more, in an indirect was to public scrutiny. That the a step in the right direction, and should be supported by the University...
...could never stun readers the way the dialogue does. Even at its most clumsy Higgins's descriptive prose still serves as respite and counterpoint, amplifying the impact of his characters' talk. In his last two-books, on the other hand, there are few pages with anything but dialogue. Even indirect quotation is entirely abandoned: a clear sentence like the one beginning Eddie Coyle ("Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns,") is not allowed. Before long, Higgins loses control of A City on a Hill to those spontaneous bureaucrats...
...then--relief, North Station, The Boston Garden. A gleaming, glistening, brand new depot, underground, no less; a bold stop forward in transport engineering. Looks every much like the Back bay stations along the Green Line. Same white tile. Same casually elegant indirect lighting. Same lack of real appeal. Also large grainy back and white phonographs on the Walls evocative of the neighborhood upstairs. Lions (the circus, presumably), basketball players, ice skates (Orr's?). Idle speculation as to the subjects of the photographs when the Red Line is extended and Harvard Square has its own new station. A college of caps...
...Professor Martin Kilson attacked the talk I gave on the Middle East at a recent ADA convention. This is the second time Professor Kilson has written to The Crimson criticizing speeches of mine which he did not attend and which he never discussed with me. It seems a peculiarly indirect way for colleagues to communicate. I am not much inclined to join this sort of correspondence, but a few notes seems in order...
...gasoline to discourage the use thereof. Now why would I want to buy a new car just to take it home and put it in the garage? Demand for fuel is governed less by price adjustment than by the number of vehicles in operation. Rationing, either direct or indirect, makes sense only if there is a corresponding reduction of demand by reducing the number of vehicles...