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...even the protesters were swept under by the supra-efficient planning which fused the Republican's gathering in Miami Beach. Their goal of forcing the President to deliver his acceptance speech before a half filled auditorium seemed an improbable one at the outset; its chances for success diminished steadily as internal dissension over tactics of violence and non-violence split the demonstrators...
Other grad student comments vary greatly, but almost all recognize Bailyn's essential academic decency-cloaked under a few layers of sharp, supra-rational logic. "He's very diplomatic," according to one department cliche, "on his own terms." According to another. "Bailyn's the kind of man who plays his cards inside his chest...
...interview in 1967 that people still don't know how to hear and see a movie: Herostretus demands that consciousness at every moment. Sound is used extremely expressionistically; on a stairway we hear waves: in a studio, owls; when Max smashes his room the sound-track erupts in supra-realistic explosions. Often the developmental relation of the imagery relies on the sound track alone, as when the screen goes blank, or when a sound from a previous image returns with out its visual accompaniment (in the early morning. a close-up of Max alone in an empty plaza is matched...
...Dark As the Grave, he trudged back through the country, the town, and even the buildings that had plagued him into writing Under the Volcano. Through most of the book, Lowry paws around, at times almost dispassionately, in the relics of the earlier novel. What had come off as supra-human desperation in Under the Volcano now emerges as an occasional fit of pique...
...midyear test the marks ranged from 1 to 214, out of 200. The student with the 214, one of the entranced mystics, really had a 138. But his grade became more than itself when he freaked out on a chemical conformation and entered supra-infinite space...