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...Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, chair of the rent control subcommittee, said that many of the objections raised against the proposals by owners and tenants have been specious and misinformed...
...SIMILAR NOTE, a comment from search committee member Robert G. Stone, Jr., has convinced us to retract our specious comparisons of the committee and the Mafia...
...objection that this proposal would pair those most in need of legal assistance with the least experienced attorneys is similarly specious. Experienced attorneys would serve as well in the four-week stints mentioned above; young lawyers could work under permanent supervisors; and a new lawyer certainly provides better assistance than no lawyer...
Katz might have noted, for example, that the citizens who chased ROTC off campus now complain that Blacks and the poor are unduly represented in the military. (The poor part of this claim is somewhat specious according to current statistics on Army enlistments.) Despite draft deferments in the Korean War, the elitist colleges, including Harvard alumni and this writer, were well represented in the officer corps. Katz might examine what influence--heavy casualties aside--the military service of elitist college alumni had on the ultimate disillusionment with the Korean conflict that beset decision makers in Washington, the press, the academies...
...like fiction: you can't sit down and say, 'Goddammit, I'm going to blast out these sentences and send them to the publisher' -- this kind of John Wayneism of literature. You just can't." He finds the notion of a so-called Rocky Mountain school of literature equally specious. Still, he admits that "there is a residual frontier feeling of open possibilities that seems to be a part of the voice of living here...