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Wakefield deftly shuttles back and forth between the two nations, from the cops to the hippies, from Kiwanians to the ghettos, from an energetic retirement village to a listless Indian reservation. The organization men, rich or poor, high or low, spout a lifeless, insensitive jargon. The unorganized are often speechless. Wakefield could hardly coax any words out of a young Indian man at a Phoenix school. But a white teacher was full of answers, such as "There are ten sociological variables which influence why Indian students become dropouts." Yet, Wakefield found grounds for hope. An Indian militant was distributing cards...
These are not the sort of people who make headlines, at least not as undergraduates, and to most Harvard undergraduates the Republican Club seems lifeless because of the lack of excitement it generates. But the club is not unexciting to those who make it part of their Harvard career...
...frequently shorthanded because of penalties, but the lifeless Harvard six was unable to capitalize. John Burnett, B.C.'s netminder, was almost impenetrable as he turned away 40 shots. The lone Crimson tally came at 5:35 of the first period. Joe Cavanagh, the Yardling's top scorer, drilled a pass from fellow forward Steve Owen into the upper left-hand corner of the Eagle nets past the out-positioned Burnett...
...successful trip to the moon, Surveyor was spared a severe test that future unmanned spacecraft on missions to Mars and Venus will have to endure: dry-heat sterilization to prevent the contamination of other planets by earthly microorganisms. The terrestrial bugs can do little harm on the lifeless moon, but experts agree that their premature arrival on other planets could obliterate or alter possible native life forms before they could be studied. There is a growing feeling, nonetheless, that the U.S. may have accepted international sterilization standards that are unnecessarily high...
...correspondents are excellent journalists. As guests at the dinner table, they are good value. On television they have an impressive fluency and sonority. In the magazines, they write well, brilliantly sometimes." Yet what they write for their daily papers is often "quite appalling, long, loose, rambling and repetitive." This lifeless writing results, King declared, from a "fetish for objectivity." Reporters "divest news of its own inherent drama. They cast away the succulent flesh and offer the reader dry bones, coated with an insipid sauce of superfluous verbiage. They reject the flashing, illuminating phrase, which can make an unknown foreign statesman...