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Indeed, Viet Nam has given the young - protesters and participants alike - the opportunity to disprove the doom criers of the 1950s who warned that the next generation would turn out spineless and grey-flannel-souled. Henry David Thoreau would have felt at home with the young of the 60's, they are as appalled as he was at the thought of leading "lives of quiet desperation." In deed, for the future, the generation now in command can take solace from its offspring's determination to do better...
...pitiful and poor creature. Endowed with poor plumbing, a disorderly mind and much mental blindness, he is the only imperfect being in an increasingly computerized environment." As he takes shape in Antes' oils, man is consistently deformed, his body pudgy with baby fat, a spineless creature whose torso is nonexistent. At times he has a single eye that seems to see too much, at other times even three cannot focus on reality. But, insists Antes, "I am trying to make man perfect again, attempting to take him again into the center, rediscovering him." Strangely, it works, for out from...
...Throw them out! Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Stalin or Khrushchev would welcome these spineless, nodding, grunting freshmen. Since the people have lost their say in Congress because Representatives must bow to der Leader's "political advice," why have an election? If Congressmen don't do their job for the people because they fear loss of their position, where is our Republic, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights? In the future, I shall pay more attention to the way my Representative and Senators are voting...
Hollywood, which seemed moribund a couple of years ago, has always been salvageable. All the movie men had to do was to embrace television. But with a will surprising among the supposedly spineless masters of the picture business, Hollywood for a long time refused. One studio -20th Century-Fox-actually closed its gates for a while, and other studios moved vacantly forward with skeletal staffs...
...frightened, disgusted and disillusioned with our Republican Party. Our leaders, with the exception of Rockefeller, seem to have become spineless onlookers. Our so-called pros are selling us out; they are giving our country a one-party system...