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...most outrageous or destructive idea or art form becomes accepted overnight. "In fact," writes Bell, the chief characteristic of the Establishment "is its eagerness to repudiate its own existence." The condition of art is echoed in politics and the economy. Capitalists have lost faith in their enterprise and are listless about defending it. Capitalism's very success has created a paradox: hard work, discipline and organization make capitalism successful. But the goods it abundantly produces encourage a mindless pursuit of hedonism. Capitalism is thus deprived of any "moral or transcendent ethic." There is a further paradox. The greater...
...girl. In a declaration filed with Federal Judge Oliver J. Carter, they declared that she was "a mentally and emotionally disturbed young woman, who is either emerging from or about to fall into a nervous breakdown." In their consultations with her, they said, "she appeared disorganized, flat and listless in her accounts, and vacillating in her attitude toward her parents and lawyers involved in the case. She seemed to have no idea of the gravity of her position." They said she often sat staring into space, ignoring questions they put to her, even when they repeated them several times. When...
...such as a karate class being attacked by fresh fruit, grew to sequences like the Killer Joke that caused everyone to die laughing. Ultimately, the Joke was taken over by the War Office and launched against the Nazis in the Ardennes. Another Python classic was the case of the listless cat. "In a rut," declared its owners, who thereupon called in the Confuse-A-Cat team, men in white coats who stage a full-scale military review. The cat watches without twitching a whisker. Then it suddenly goes crazy...
Apparently she was recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees...
Perhaps chastened by this experience, the class of 1969 turned from radical political activism to perennial political futility, in the person of Allard K. "Help-Me-With-My-Campaign" Lowenstein. "What troubles me most this year is how much we've lost by not trying." "Help-Me" told the listless seniors, some of whom were also troubled by the deaths of King, Robert F. Kennedy '48 and tens of thousands of Vietnamese. "I think it's terrible to throw out a dean--I was a dean once," the once and future would-be Congressman continued...