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...knows? Impressions of community life in the small mining town--a carnival-like communion service where wafers are taken to accordion music, a songfest saluting beer, a fishing picnic where one woman asks June "have you ever seen a sucker?"--take on, for all their sociological insights, a grotesquely pointless irreality. Why suddenly does a marching band parade down Main Street? The impersonal curiosity with which these studies in "naturalism" are offered conveys a sense of uneasy intimacy similar to going through a stranger's family album...
...Children's Crusade, for example, he sings of the pointless deaths of young infantries in World War I: "The Children of England would never be slaves/ They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves/ The flower of England face down in the mud/ And stained in the blood of a whole generation." The song would be harmlessly banal had he not tacked on the final stanza: "Mid-night in Soho Nineteen Eighty-Four/ Fixing in doorways, opium slaves/ Poppies for young men, such bitter trade/ All of those young lives betrayed/ All for a children's crusade...
...University, for its part, has demonstrated a lack of concern for student participation by of the committee so soon after the two recent incidents, leaving students almost no time to reach a consensus on continuing the boycott. Yet such refusal by students to join would be unwise, unpragmatic, and pointless...
...caused undue mental anguish to the secretaries and other staffers in the building, who have nothing to do with Harvard's investment policy. Just what one wonders, did they hope to accomplish by the takeover? If it was to draw attention to their cause, then the action was pointless, since previous divestiture events this spring, most notably the rally in the Yard which drew 5000 people, have adequately accomplished this goal. In fact, the action set their cause back by costing the protesters the support of many members of the Harvard community favorably disposed to their arguments--but rightfully unwilling...
...Terry Romano countered, saying that $5 credits for Levi's jeans were among the items of possible interest to students. However, Stan Sesser, west coast editor of Consumer Reports, called the service "a real hassle" and said it was pointless to "buy a more expensive telephone service in order to get a cheaper blender." With the number of calls her family made, Lawrence said "we maybe qualified for a clothesline...