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...denying Jackson parole and transferring him to San Quentin, the state officials essentially were trying to impress upon him the power that was at their disposal. Soledad, a medium security prison, is by no means a pleasant environment in which to spend your twenty-first year on earth, but Q has long been notorious as the roughest joint in the state. By exhibiting their ability not only to deny him release but also to worsen the conditions of his confinement, the authorities hoped to drive defiance from Jackson by intimately acquainting him with the cost of such resistance...
...ultimate conclusion is not a pleasant one. Isaacs, Nash and Vigier are not without fault. Kilbridge is guilty of conduct similarly out of line with the principles of academic due process and academic freedom. Regardless of how the Corporation finds--and we believe that it should find in large part for the professors--it is obvious that the Design School cannot return to its former stature if the sour taste of the past five years lingers in any form, from either side. For the good of the School, Kilbridge should resign immediately as dean and return, if he is willing...
America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums...
...rules. He has given that job to Connally, who will now have a vastly expanded stage on which to play his roles of charmer and back-room arm twister. Connally has plunged into the task with gusto. At a televised press conference last Friday, he was incisive, seemingly candid, pleasant and shrewdly disarming enough to give Spiro Agnew still more reason to fear for his spot on the Republican ticket next year...
...What remains for the Quennell corps are mostly second siftings, attractively presented, which reinforce the charm of the whole Proust legend. The English novelist most often compared to Proust, Anthony Powell, contributes a pleasant little piece about "Proust as a Soldier." (When Proust was asked "What event in military history do you most admire?", he answered: "My own enlistment as a volunteer...