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What do these celebrated Steigian brain scramblers share with each other, and with most of the rest of the populace? They are conspicuously rational people doing their unlevel best to become less rational. In so doing they are playing out cameo roles in what Dr. David Cooper calls the "Madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Cult of Madness: Thinking As a Bad Habit | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

While the journal can be safely skipped, the sixty pages of essays tacked on at the end are well worth reading. They all deal with modern post-Eliot and Pound poetry, what Dickey thinks is wrong with it, and where he thinks it should be going. Like everyone else, Dickey...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The American Hype Machine | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

WHY DOES anyone fall in love? Does it have more to do with the faller of the fallee? Could Rigg have been anybody; is Scott just looking for an excuse to fill in the space in his life? And Rigg-is she just seeking someone to enliven the boredom of...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

FINALLY, the GSD's relationship with the University community as a whole continues to deteriorate. The adjudication of the grievances of the three professors was conducted in an atmosphere of secrecy inconsistent with the beliefs in free and rational discourse and open and scholarly inquiry that supposedly characterize the Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GSD: Round 3 | 2/17/1972 | See Source »

As the first act closes, Pinter redoubles his attacks on our expectations. People don't answer when spoken to, or if they do, they respond by talking about a totally different subject. Max begins a sentence with, "your mother was a lovely woman" and ends by denouncing that same lovely...

Author: By Merrick Garland, | Title: The Homecoming | 2/15/1972 | See Source »

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