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...what may be an ultimate even in Hollywood home projection facilities, Wasserman's movie-screening room is actually a separate building-with a sliding aluminum roof and enough couch-side buttons to thrill General Sarnoff-one for controlling stereo, others for tape machines, radio, and the movie sound-track volume. As he sits in this room and judges all he has done in the past few years, he has a great deal more in mind than the simple Hollywood formula: "If it makes money, it's good...
This concreteness was also the distinguishing characteristic of The American High School Today. In that first book, Conant issued no calls to revolution such as might thrill the hearts of Paul Goodman fans. Perhaps he did not fully realize the long-range theoretical implications of his own suggestions. Yet by presenting a number of specific, carefully thought-out, feasible recommendations for American high schools, he became the leading exponent of the post-Sputnik revolution of academic excellence in American education...
...expounds on such themes, he is at his least interesting. Doubtless what he says is true, but it is also platitudinous; surely no one reading that "there is a profound causal relationship between the height of a man's ambition and the depth of a man's fall" will thrill at the keenness of the insight. The Hammarskjold revealed by observations like this is still the conscientious public servant that we have always seen...
Most of Malamondo is so patently contrived and tasteless that even thrill seekers will find it boring. Its net effect is to make an audience stop wondering about today's youth and start wondering about the grown men who make such movies. Perhaps this entry will be the last. If not, the pig died in vain...
some more squeamish Cliffies field the hall, their dates in tow. But most stayed and sought, with Ginsberg, "the thrill delicious," which might sometimes be merely "playing with myself unbeknownst to the entire population of Far Rockaway...