Word: talking
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...communal enterprise requires work, discipline and ideology. American students tend to refuse the first two (of course, the Protestant ethic is dead) and cannot understand the third. Rebellion becomes non-cerebral, sensate, lacking the ideal of the continental student. Everybody talks at once, tries to épater la bourgeoisie with obscenities and refuses "work" courses, where reading replaces talk off the tops of many heads. McLuhan says we're postliterate anyway, so why read and write? Even hippiedom is huckstered. In short, white liberals are too busy feeling and emoting to change much of anything. Even their rebellious life...
...harsh talk about campus unrest, Nixon was unexpectedly mild in his statement on college disturbances released last week. At his direction, Secretary Finch merely dispatched, a letter to college administrators, pointing out that there is in existence a statute that cuts off federal aid to demonstrators who have been convicted of breaking the law. Given the strong current of public feeling against the demonstrators, the President could probably have done little less. He could, however, have done a great deal more, and those who hoped for a more repressive policy would undoubtedly be disappointed. The student message is, in fact...
Arrived in Detroit O.K. But on the way to talk to the people at Universal Inexplicable, I almost got smooched by a cop. Would you believe...
...Brutish British. Anguilla was ready: a flotilla of lobster smacks, so one story went, would wake the island by blowing horns when a British ship appeared. A herd of goats was supposedly assigned to clog the airstrip, and there was desultory talk of using sharp rocks to block island beaches against infiltrators. Undaunted, the British mustered a force of about 300 men, including the Red Devils, a Royal Marine platoon and bobbies from Scotland Yard, to set up a pacification program. When the British surged ashore, automatic weapons at the ready, there were only a few children to meet them...
...Buddhist Church should stand in the middle, not leaning to one side or the other in the conflict, and that after the Vietnamese New Year there would be a number of ceremonies to pray for peace. Since the South Vietnamese government equates neutralism with communism and considers those who talk of peace as communist lackeys, it is no wonder that Thich Thien Minh was arrested for having wanted to stay in the middle and to pray for peace...