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Writing in The Crimson five years ago, William Galeota called rent control a "panacea." He explained the 1969 turmoil about controls as a reaction to specific problems of the time--controversy over the proposed Inner Belt highway (since abandoned), the then-new NASA center, and the influx of people into the city...
...possessions, magically lives off the forest, and is automatically taken into the bosom of every household and every bed he approaches in his travels without so much as an introduction. But when the implication is that "this is all ye know and need to know"--the ultimate panacea--one wonders about the starving Indian peasants who this film loves to display dancing and smoking dope: They're in rags, but they're spiritually free...
...guarantee of understanding (as Thoreau well recognized when he remarked that if he knew for a certainty that a man was coming to his house with the conscious design of doing him good, he would run for his life). In this particular case Mr. Garin's knee-jerk panacea of conscription must be looked at a lot more closely and must not just be adopted because a certain Richard M. Nixon happened to support the all-volunteer military--after all so did George McGovern, Henry Rosovsky, Playboy magazine and Barry Goldwater...
Ability to Govern. "Watergate is one narrow issue," declared Robert Strauss, Democratic National Party Chairman. "I think people are more disturbed about leadership, about the ability to govern. There was some fallout from Watergate, but it isn't a panacea. I don't see any national significance...
...vulnerable to White House brainwashing as Presidential Television suggests? Perhaps not. Despite their heavy use of TV, Johnson and Nixon hardly proved that airwave blitzes alone can shape national opinion. However much use they make of the tube, future Presidents may well decide that TV is not a panacea for their public relations problems...