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...American Note is headlined "The Amnesty Failure" [Sept. 22]. You are wrong. Amnesty did not fail. Only the narrow, shallow, unrealistic "clemency" program has "quietly fizzled." It deserved to fail. Now let's give amnesty a chance...
Wolfe had become disillusioned with Baker by this time, although the professor had made Wolfe his protege. Wolfe later described Baker, as a shallow man who used nothing but "glib and easy jargon...
Juan Beniquez greeted Borbon with a single over second, and now the bases were loaded. Could it be? No, says Borbon, as he fans Doyle. No again, says Borbon, as he induces Yaz to fly to shallow center...
...elite colleges--Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, Brandeis--arose from the especially high expectations and disillusionment among students at such schools. In America and Western Europe, students have always been prospective independent professionals: doctors, lawyers, professors, and engineers. All that ended with the consolidation of bureaucratic capitalism. Smith's analysis is shallow in predicting future revolutionary class consciousness among educated workers--his mistake stems, again, from his too-mechanistic Marxism...
...important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer or a fraud...