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...pointless book. It is a biography of Robert Kennedy and yet does not attempt to understand or explain him. Its failure to present a single coherent view of Kennedy-to illuminate his personality and probe it in depth-is a damning fault. Both authors were Kennedy "insiders": Milton Gwirtzman 54 was a political associate of Kennedy and William vanden Heuval was a close friend. It is surprising that they fail to go beyond the public view of Kennedy in their description...
Some books which are just as pointless as On His Own redeem themselves through the quality of their writing. But the writing in On His Own is too mediocre to provide salvation. In its description of Kennedy this book never goes beyond the vocabulary already overused in the mass media and in the books of other New Frontiersmen. Its attempts at eloquence end in cliches. Amidst the plodding style of this narrative, passage quoted from Kenndy's speeches seem like rare oases...
...pointless liberties that Southern takes with his own book make the movie adaptation as unrecognizable as it is unbearable. The book's humor generated from its non-hero, a round little gnome named Guy Grand who indulged in marginal lunacies to relieve the boredom of his billionaire empire. Southern wryly drew the bead on the linearity and arid dullness that typify the lives of everyday Americans by dropping a rich nut in their midst...
...tenured professors. The few senior faculty who did attempt to take part in resolving the crisis after the disruptions began are properly credited by Kahn for their effort. But according to Kahn the majority of the tenured faculty succeeded only in tying up the entire faculty body in endless pointless meetings and discussions. And when a small, liberal group of faculty members walked out of the regular faculty meetings and formed their own group, they were unable to get a hearing for their proposals from either the administration of the radical students...
...product-that is, G.N.P. minus the effect of inflation-in two successive quarters. Such a decline has never occurred except during a cycle that the NBER calls a recession. Last week McCracken dismissed the simple definition as "nonsense." Trying to frame a standard so exact, he said, is as "pointless" as trying to determine "the exact minimum number of whiskers that qualify to be called a beard...