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...aggression, a put-down comedian, and a lover of English whose sentences curl with the involuted beauty of a sea shell, but when he puts on his thinking cap, he is a poseur. To embrace everyone is to be no one. A Delicate Balance is a wish for oblivion posing as a plea for love, and its fine cast and funny lines cannot hide its phony bones...
...reimpressed with the need to open wider the doors of higher education. Only as long as we educate ourselves and our children in as broad a manner as possible are we assured that a "Mao revolution" will not sweep over us, driving whatever man has accomplished of worth into oblivion...
False Hopes. Everything, in fact, seemed to be going the Reds' way. Under the skilled hand of Secretary-General Dipa Nusantara Aidit, the P.K.I, had risen from virtual oblivion after a 1948 coup attempt to a membership of 3,000,000-not including the 14 million members of its labor and youth fronts. At the suggestion of Chou Enlai, Sukarno had given the green light for a massive People's Militia, which the Communists intended to use to contain the army-their only possible rival in any struggle for power. In addition, they were infiltrating the army...
...with thirty dollars in her pocket and was never seen again. Is she dead? Is she living somewhere under a false identity? Or was she, like the heroine of The House Without Windows, lifted up by a great flock of green and gold and purple butterflies and borne into oblivion...
...profitably as a second lieutenant than as a private. The possibility of schedules and regimentation doesn't seem to bother them. After two years of standing at attention, shuffling forms and memoranda, and perhaps fighting a war, many of them will return to grad school and to the quieter oblivion of the lecture hall...