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...daughter Nancy, the "town darling"-Capote makes clear why a neighbor exclaimed after the murder: "That family represented everything people hereabouts really value and respect, and that such a thing could happen to them-well, it's like being told there is no God. It makes life seem pointless...
...director of the Chicago Teachers College Graduate School, contends, that IQ tests mainly predict "how a kid with a good middle-class background will do in middle-class schools." But so far, nobody has devised a "culture free" test that is particularly useful. Besides, such a test might be pointless since the aim of testing is to help guide children toward success in a culture of broad middle-class values. "If a child does poorly on an aptitude test because he comes from the wrong side of the tracks," says the Educational Testing Service's vice president, Henry...
...moves into a dingy Greenwich Village apartment, hits the showier Village bars, tries an affair with a melancholy Village music teacher. It all seems pointless. Maybe abroad? "Rubbing your backside with a colored scarf and squirting wine out of goatskins?" Hopefully he hops off to Spain, moves into a dingy pensión, sits around in cafés with the local American beatniks, even goes off to Morocco for awhile to see if marijuana is the answer. And slowly he discovers what all sensible people know: that all the world over, hips are duller than squares...
...much of the student unrest started; it would all be forgotten, said Kerr rather comfortably, by the time the class of '65 held its 50th reunion. At Tufts, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach declared that he was all for protest as long as it was meaningful, but "it becomes pointless, silly and even harmful when it serves only as a substitute for goldfish swallowing or a panty raid." Katzenbach cautioned against forming rigid convictions on insufficient evidence, and recalled Oliver Cromwell's words to the Church of Scotland: "My brethren, I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think...
...turned out to be far less an educational forum than a platform for intra-academy cattiness and pointless caterwauling. Anti-Administration speakers showed a woeful lack of accurate information and a disturbing tendency to use only the facts that proved their case for reduction or total abolition of the U.S. involvement in Asia. The star performer-and chief advocate for the Administration-was to have been McGeorge Bundy, the President's No. 1 White House aide on foreign affairs. At the last minute. Bundy sent his regrets, saying only that he could not attend because of "other duties...