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...settlement of old abuse/That makes of larger vice good company." Mrs. Barker presents these dry conundrums as miracles of perception that the rest of the poems will presumably fill in and justify. It never happens; whatever her experiences have been, she has chosen to speak of them in pointless riddles...
...Henry Swoboda, the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, greets you, he shoots out his baton hand with disarming speed. The gesture lacks the pointless effusiveness one so often encounters. Swoboda is disarming in other ways as well. After launching into a musical idea with open feeling, he immediately backtracks by demanding "Do you see what I mean...
...general, Nilsson uses his camera with all the pointless facility one might expect from such a veteran of the international festival circuit. If two lovers lie on the ground, he inverts the camera and shoots the treetops. A self-conscious device like this does not reinforce the narrative; it distracts the viewer and makes him think primarily of the cameraman, not the lovers gazing up at the sky. At any rate, it is the worst kind of visual euphemism...
There is nothing inevitable about this flood. Certain HSA activities encroach; others do not; and it would be pointless to insist that the entire agency is a sweeping, irresistible evil. (The article below is part of an attempt to illustrate this). The trouble is simply that the University refuses to trim offending activities down to their proper size. No doubt the fact that the HSA Director wears extra hats in the student employment office and in Administration committees has something to do with Harvard's passivity, but it certainly cannot completely explain who the Administration apparently never subjects...
...children and animals, slighting mention of minority groups, profanity. Profanity uttered in the middle of a sentence is blotted over with tape, leaving an uncomfortable "bloop" in the sound track. Cuts in The Cruel Sea somehow made two ships one, left much of the dialogue senseless and many episodes pointless, reduced salty navy talk to tea-cozy delicacy...