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...shooting 80,000 steel darts into the bleachers from the underbelly of the Goodyear blimp. The political motives of the principals involved, although necessarily handled mostly as a premise for suspense, are carefully presented so no-one can take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing but divorce and psychological grief since his return to the States, is brilliantly manic as he engineers the blimp-massacre to strike back at America for himself...
...most saline of American writers finds himself unable to escape the tenebrous undertow of Jewish mysticism. "My inclination is to resist the imagination when it operates in this way," he writes. "Yet I, too, feel that the light of Jerusalem has purifying pow ers and filters the blood and the thoughts. I don't forbid myself the reflection that light may be the outer garment...
...Indians who have made it to Harvard seem to have little trouble making it once they are here. They come, in general, from an Indian elite--three of the four interviewed have parents holding government jobs usually held by Anglos. And even though they may dance at pow-wows or their relatives may make lacrosse sticks, they have not been sheltered from the white world...
...limited number of people, most of whom already have a bachelor's degree, are admitted. Such students are accepted because of some extraordinary type of preparation, or of some circumstances in their personal life. For instance, a former Air Force pilot who was held prisoner in a North Vietnameses POW camp in Hanoi was granted permission to study sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But the Special Students program is small: it is run on an ad hoc basis, and because most of its students study as graduates, they come into little contact with undergraduates...
...vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished in a dead heat with the Gaullists (46%) in the popular vote...