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...General George Armstrong Custer, ex-gunslinger, scalawag and drunkard. No sir. He is Little Big Man, sole survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn. He may tell a stretcher or two, but when he reminisces, graduate students listen. A budding anthropologist starts a tape recorder, Crabb opens his toothless yawp and the saga unfurls...
...Reich fails to realize that "the machine" responsible for "repression, misery and frustration" is run by "very definite, identifiable persons, groups, classes and interests." Changing them, Marcuse implies, will take "preparation, organization, mobilization." By shunning the necessities of power, Reich merely "transfigures social and political radicalism" into the toothless utopianism of "moral rearmament." Greening, declares Marcuse, should forthwith be dismissed as a cop-out-the "Establishment version of the great rebellion," not the real...
...with them." It is uncertain whether this understanding will lead to Afro's looking over every story dealing with blacks. With its show of force, Afro has knocked out the baby teeth of the HarBus which grew while Chokel was editor. Schmidt will now have to decide between a toothless paper or a stronger set of permanent teeth which will have a lot more bite...
...mezzanine, music plays from a transistor radio the cabbie pimp has thoughtfully provided. Sam is trying to figure out whether once he has paid for the wedding they will have enough pesos to buy gas to get back to California. Merilee beams at the toothless priest who is gumming the consonants in his chants, and suddenly through an access of amazing grace, she comprehends Maya. Candles flame, incense smells, Girl pants, chickadees are released and a pigcon and the entire entourage totters dizzily down 192 steps without casualty, preceded by the pimp carrying the still-chanting priest...
...special message to Congress last week, President Nixon began to battle in earnest for protection of the U.S. environment. His previous talk about the problem had sounded somewhat hollow. Even his new Council on Environmental Quality had appeared toothless; his recent ban on pollution by federal facilities seemed unenforceable. By sharp contrast, the President's message last week contained 14 executive orders and 23 requests for legislative acts. Tough, direct and specific, it surprised all White House watchers...