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Distorted and sensational reporting by the media does as much to impede prison reform as organized political opposition. A recent Boston magazine "expose" of the treatment center for SDPs described at length the violent sexual acts of two treatment center inmates, then closed with a lament that SDPs have enormous trouble gaining the community's acceptance after they have left the center. Such articles ignore the plight of the majority who are not incorrigible and allow people to harbor misconceptions about who inhabits our prisons and what can or cannot be done to help them...
...fact, Project Independence has mainly yielded a barrel of complaints about equipment shortages that are delaying new production. Driller George Mitchell, head of a large Houston exploration company, voices a typical wildcatter's lament: "We've got six good prospects offshore Texas that we've had to defer for six to eight months already for lack of equipment." Another independent oilman, A.V. Jones of Albany, Texas, estimates that he could increase his company's new drilling by 50% if he had the necessary material. As it is, he says, "if all the wells...
...EVEN MORE excruciating crises are plaguing the world, crises to which we can be but impervious. Looking at newspaper photographs of emaciated women combing the ground for blades of wheat to give their dying children is little different from reading unemployment statistics in Newsweek. We look, shudder, and lament, and then run to make the last feature at the Brattle. Perhaps we could grasp 'the magnitude of the situation if some international group flew in a group of Bengali or Nigerian villagers to Harvard Square, where they would compete with chanting Hare Krishna people for the attention of the people...
...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
Would Buckley abolish the U.N. or pull the U.S. out? Not at all. His book comes out as a lament for the U.N.'s failed trust. Walter Mittyism seizes Buckley again as he imagines a coup in which U.N. military advisers take over and forbid the Arabs to bemoan the plight of the world's poor without sharing their oil, or the Africans to excoriate racism without subduing their own racists. In Buckley's fantasy U.N., too, Eastern European representatives would be required to ask Soviet permission every time they rise to speak. Buckley concludes that...