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Alongside Chomsky's apocalyptic posture-historian as moralist and trac-tarian-Bloodworth has the slouch of a cynic. He is the professional journalist, selecting the amusing or exotic tidbit for the reader's jaded palate. He has seen too much to be shocked by anything or to believe in anything. He survives by his reflex for flippancy. Yet, by a curious paradox, Bloodworth's book eventually seems wiser and even more serious than Chomsky...
...corollary, passed last January, called the Bergson Rule. The Bergson Rule, named after Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, says that if any proposal is passed at a Faculty meeting attended by less than a third of the Faculty, the next meeting has a right to overrule the motion. This tidbit is mentioned only to show how absurdly formalistic the Faculty has now become...
...passed last January, called the Bergson Rule. The Bergson Rule, named after Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, says that if any proposal is passed at a Faculty meeting attended by less than a third of the Faculty, the next meeting has a right to over-rule the motion. This tidbit is mentioned only to show how absurdly formalistic the Faculty has now become...
...time, the sign struck me as bad politics, if only because it gave the media a juicy tidbit for the Low Frustration Threshold Theory of student unrest (sure enough, it was the only slogan that the New York Times quoted in its coverage). But it didn't surprise me. It merely articulated the grim skepticism I ran up against in October when I tried to sell the Student Mobilization Committee's position to saddened veterans of the peace movement. Come, march once more. I had pleaded. The constellation of events is just right. If this march fails, no march...
...returning a red cashmere pullover that was a present from her husband, John F. Kennedy. Scribbled across the letter are several notations by the unidentified store's credit department, questioning where the sweater was actually purchased and finally deciding to settle for an $18.50 credit. The latest tidbit of Jacqueline Kennedy memorabilia is soon to be put on the block along with three similar letters (expected price: several hundred dollars apiece) by Manhattan Autograph Dealer Charles Hamilton, who will not say where he got them-except that they were "salvaged" from someone's wastebasket. One of the other...