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...military makes every man dependent on his most elemental skills and instincts. All within hearing distance of the whip-lash voice of the master sergeant are equal, and all may be sent--without warning, or justification or purpose--to destruction...
...administration to drop the remaining objectionable regulations would have succeeded without the December 1964 sit-in or other forms of on-campus civil disobedience. A more moderate approach would not have divided the campus into bitterly hostile factions, and would not have produced an anti-Berkeley 'back-lash" among the electorate. Effective politics requires that one evaluate all consequences, not just immediate results. Seymour M. Lipset Professor of Government and Social Relations
...Your Essay on the Negro contributes to the current liberal no-lash, the let's-ease-up-for-a-while feeling spreading among many well-meaning whites. What do your "remarkable" progress, "dramatic gains," "soaring" percentage increases, "impressive" and "enormous" advances add up to? More segregation in Northern schools, limping tokenism in the South, rising unemployment, widening income disparities, a few Negro Congressmen, and a general slowdown of progress in housing and school integration enforcement. Your estimate that the "Negro's choices are widening with fair rapidity" and that we have come "an incredibly long way" since Lincoln...
...railroads, New York Central President Alfred Perlman once explained that for years they had endured the lash of critics who "thought the industry was like the dodo bird-with its head where its tail feathers ought to be." Until recently, the critics seemed to be right. Standpat thinking smothered rail progress for most of the first four decades of the century, while autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers...
...Deperret (Joseph Hindy), an "erotomaniac" whom Brook equipped with a perpetual erection, urges Charlotte to return to Caen; he forgets himself and nearly rapes her. Sade is whipped -- in London and New York with Corday's flowing hair, since the decency laws forbade public flagellation -- and here with a lash of six flat leather tails. Marat sinks into darkness and confronts the ghosts of his past, who slander his childhood, and Voltaire and Lavoisier, who mock his scientific achievements -- all played by a writhing tableau of mental patients...