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AFTER THE election Richard Nixon tried to mollify his intellectual critics by appointing a few of their spokesmen to sub-Cabinet posts, but last Wednesday night he reaffirmed his fundamental ties with the Quiet Americans who elected him. Nixon's entire Cabinet show--from the patronizing note about "high marks" for Walter Washington, Mayor of the District, to the line about "respecting" Dean Rusk for the "dignified" way he blindly ignored any suggestion that the war might be a mistake--was aimed at TV sets in warm middle-class living rooms...
...vast tangle. On the first day of the discussion--which proved the most productive in many ways--the conversation bounced from the problems of blacks in America, to the problems of big bureaucracy and corporate capitalism. A Czech economist, Eugene Loebl, interjected the problems of youth as a sub-theme, but conversation turned away after an insistent Italian suggested that the American crisis could not really be separated from the problems of the world at large, and particularly the underdeveloped countries. Kaysen explained politely to him that the rest of the world would be considered two days hence...
This plastics show demonstrates a beautiful all-plastic sub-aesthetic of this technological aesthetic. And within this even a washing machine agitator, lifted out of its laundromat context, becomes a graceful flowing-spiral sculpture...
...that each man must try to acquire as much wealth for himself as he possibly can. The index of a man's standing is measured exclusively in terms of the goods he possesses which ensures the smooth functioning of the growth-economy and legitimizes the wealth of the richer sub-classes...
...must either choose to teach in schools or they must work on newspapers or magazines or in television or films. It is better to work in an independent shoestring operation than to work for the establishment media because the latter is not independent of the power of the rich sub-classes. But it is better to work for the establishment media than it is to enter the System. Breaking from the System means that under no circumstances should anyone join the techno-structural elite, or worse still, the Rich...