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...TACTICS are equally self-destructive. The ideologues' shrill voices and closed ears drive away the very people that they should try to convince. They preach to the converted. Talking to those who agree with your views may be pleasant, but it does nothing to change anyone's mind...
Probably the most impressive Harvard skier in the carnival was junior Daniel Sheinberg. Sheinberg took first place in the slalom by a large margin and third in the giant slalom--a repeat of his performance last weekend in Pleasant Mountain...
...prospective physicists and engineers, the first year at Harvard is rarely a pleasant one. The homework is difficult, the teaching is frequently poor, and the drop-out rate from first-year physics is high...
...think of the telephone purely as a secular voice thrower, it arrives in the mind at its most irritating. For example, no one has yet devised a pleasant way for a telephone to come to life. The ring is a sudden intrusion, a drill in the ear. Pavlov's dog hears and picks the damned thing up. The Satanic bleats from some new phones are the equivalent of sound lasers. Don't hurt me again, says the dog. I'll talk. Perhaps the phone that looks like a duck decoy and quacks instead of ring will breed new species -- phones...
...This all should have happened long ago. Now if we can make this into a democracy and get some of the money back, this could be one of the most pleasant places to live. Give us a few years. Nobody here gets sad watching Dallas on West Berlin TV and says, 'I wish I had a dress like that.' We don't want to be the Taiwan of Europe...