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Last Friday night Joan Baez and Eric von Schmidt sang folk songs in Agassiz Theatre, under the aegis of the Harvard Liberal Union. Young Liberals hoping to hear even one "song of social protest" were disappointed, for the program was arranged under the widely-held and peculiar assumption that everything sung by a folk singer (even essentially conservative songs like many of the ones that Miss Baez sings) partake in some way of the yeasty liberal mythos...
...violence alone does not explain the peculiar fascination of the game. There is the appeal of its unique rhythm; the quick, heart-stopping instant of action preceded and followed by the emotional respite of time out, huddle, or penalty. There is the disciplined machinery of its teamwork: eleven men performing eleven separate actions in pursuit of a common goal-to move the ball forward. There is the balletic grace of a halfback on the open field, pirouetting from tackles with the practiced ease of Nureyev spinning through a double tour en l'air, or the split-second timing...
...visions, as in his plaints, Reich is a peculiar blend of Vance Packard and Pollyanna, a colloidal suspension of William Buckley, William Blake and Herbert Marcuse in pure applesauce. It can be justly said of Reich, as Dr. Johnson once said of Thomas Gray, that "he was dull, but he was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great...
...more like shouting, as Malta's tiny air force recently learned. Although they fly thousands of miles away from the U.S., the Maltese pilots found themselves in an almost daily radio jam-up because airliner controllers in Atlanta, Ga., were broadcasting on their frequency. Nor is the problem peculiar to the West. Only last week the Soviets complained bitterly about interference by illegal, amateur radio operators-"hooligans" who fill the air with "garbage." In one recent instance, the Soviet Ministry of Communications said, radio hams were so disruptive that controllers at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport were unable...
...that the running of the nation has been left to Spiro Agnew. Nixon, one must remember, had few pressing domestic duties as Vice-President and scarcely had any experience in public administration before 1968. He has spent the years since 1953 visiting foreign capitals and talking diplomacy-it is peculiar for an American politician to have made so many visits to Communist countries. His failure to propose or push imaginative domestic programs becomes comprehensible in light of his real objectives in the White House-to become a world statesman and undisputed leader of the "free world...