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What is it about Nastassia Kinski that makes journalists babble like half-baked poets? You spew out this "child-woman, woman-child" hogwash as if it were a controversy important enough to be given more than a passing thought...
...most students are self-centered and uninterested in making long-term changes in the University or society at large. Campus meetings are called to announce anti-nuclear arms petitions or defend draft registration evaders, but the excitement passes quickly, affecting only a tiny minority of undergraduates. The proud organizers spew out their own lack of impact. At The Crimson, where editorial commentary is considered a gravely serious duty, our positions often boast high idealism without any sense of responsibility for outlining new paths of action. Repetition of the house ideology yields stale analysis, truisms, and inaccuracies...
...forthcoming. Not a few Americans doubt the value of centralized economic planning. Others see alarming implications in the proposals for compulsory national service heard from many of these young moderates. But as the edifice of Reaganism totters on the verge of intellectual collapse, and Democratic party elders continue to spew out the old rhetoric, the neoliberals offer the single serious alternative. The Administration's economic policies may be sufficient to give victories to Democrats in 1982. But if the Democrats fall back on New Dealcum-Edward M. Kennedy-business-as-usual, election gains will yield just another chapter...
...Viking; $10.95) is an equally eerie place, populated with recognizable creatures of the jungle, but transfigured by Leonard Baskin's violent line and shadowy backgrounds. Some of the descriptions, by Baskin's wife and children, are worthy of Ogden Nash: "The pygmy marmoset's minuscule lips/ Spew shrieking taunts, fierce orations and quips." Others are freighted with anthropomorphisms and archness. But Paterfamilias Leonard makes no mistakes in his rendering of tigers, camels, bighorn sheep, aardvarks and other forms of animal life: the creatures seem to have an existence beyond the page. Parents should not be surprised...
...Congressional Budget Office computer. Its handlers are supposedly nonpartisan technicians, but Republicans suspect them of programming the computer to spew out spending and deficit forecasts pleasing to the Democrats who head House committees. "CBO is politicized to a hopeless extent," said a congressional Republican staff aide last week. The CBO computer played no role in the pre-Thanksgiving brawl, but will be heard from again...