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These two novels deal seriously with death in the electric chair. Inevitably they inflict a kind of emotional blackmail on the critical faculty. Legalized killing is a cruel and unusual procedure, so that the condemned, whether guilty or innocent, become miserable victims. Under such circumstances, it takes very little skill to arouse pity and terror in the reader...
...until he reaches the Massachusetts Institute of Technology does the author reveal his true capacities as a Jeremiah. Here he finds engineers and behavioral scientists assembling a future that they intend to inflict upon us whether we want it or not. Others before Thompson have pointed out the horrors of technocracy, but seldom with such a combination of pique and precision. (Example: "M.I.T. needs a large psychiatric clinic because the effect of technological training is to do to the psyche what industry does to the environment.") Thompson's perceptions may be partly explained by the fact that he once...
...fighter-bomber and C-130 gunship sorties over the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Once these sorties cease, so will U.S. air losses. With further troop withdrawals in 1973, the U.S. may lose no more than a couple of men a month on the average, though enemy terrorists could well inflict heavy casualties in isolated attacks...
...critics had revived all of the specters of environmental damage that a fleet of SSTs might inflict, including a frightening and seemingly exaggerated new emphasis on the increased hazards of skin cancer...
...SECOND argument in favor of the RUS coed plan is that the higher ratios of men to women necessary for complete coeducation inflict too great a hardship on the women involved. Surely no one would deny that a 1-1 or 2-1 ratio is preferable for all concerned-and especially the women-to higher ratios. But how much preferred is it? Is the difference between 2-1 and 4-1 for the people in coed Houses greater than the difference between 4-1 and 1-0 for those stuck in Houses which can't go coed in order...