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...Operation Outreach, a network of 91 storefront counseling centers for psychologically distressed Viet vets. The centers have helped 50,000 of the 2.8 million Viet Nam veterans readjust to American life. Despite their success and popularity, Ronald Reagan put them on his list of Government programs destined for budgetary oblivion...
...career. As an art form it wallows along in a colossal identity crisis with hardly any important practitioners, and as a money crop it remains hopelessly unmarketable. Though tortured young aesthetes sporting carefully squalid clothes, students, and housewives produced over 300.000 short stories last year. The missives dropped into oblivion with hardly a sound. There is simply nothing to do with them. The circle of magazines with significant readership trafficking in short fiction remains plodding and exclusive, and, young short story writers are left to show their work to their girlfriends and to languish with the melodrama of art. Worse...
While some of you were baking under southern skies yesterday or heading back to Cambridge after a week of beer, sun-tan lotion and oblivion, the Harvard women's lacrosse team was basking in the glory of a 7-6 win over the University of Pennsylvania...
...editorial in the April issue, perhaps written by editor-in-chief Edward J. Hackney, argues that those who call Vietnam and other such conflicts "wrong wars" are, in fact, wrong-headed. "These conflicts, these 'wrong wars' which we cover in Eagle, are sending societies into oblivion just as visibly as if they had been struck by a 'right' war." Light comes early to 79 Madison...
...East of Eden, there can be no such hope. Twelve years after his death, Steinbeck's reputation grazes in the pasture of celebrated oblivion inhabited by many literary Nobel laureates. But his recasting of the Cain and Abel story in turn-of-the-century California deserves better than the ABC version, and indeed it got it in a 1955 film that starred Raymond Massey as steel-spined Adam Trask and James Dean as Cal, his loving renegade...