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Most of what she seems to have gleaned from the Washington social circuit are banal generalities ("That November day in 1963 was a turning point ...") or trivial particulars ("Edmund Muskie and I were arguing about abortion . . ."). Indeed, Laughing is only incidentally an anatomy of power in the nation's capital. Howar's story is much older: how a girl with looks, sass and plenty of hustle cultivates powerful people and becomes the next best thing to powerful -famous...
...tangled and sometimes tormented community under the new dispensation of co-residence. The yearbook tells us that if you live near the Dunster library, you will be bothered by the frequent concerts held there, and that the House seems to have "fragmented into cliques." Our lives have not been trivial and meaningless, but the yearbook suggests that life in the Houses is an endless yo-yoing from classroom to lunchline, from library to pinball-machine. The writers seem compelled to distinguish their House from the others, and then can only come up with commonplaces about architecture, student stereotypes, and food...
...most of them help prove what Dey's manifesto says about journeymen-poets: that they get bogged down in simply mastering details of techniques, that they must be more than occasional poets to catch the eye of an audience, that they have to resist the temptation of formalizing trivial sensations and impressions, and that, somehow, they have to find subjects - or invent them - that are strong enough to match the potential of verse...
...well-dressed New York audience leaving the Sunday matinee performance of Last Tango in Paris had emerged trying to hide the impact of the film behind the trivial concerns of an entertainment mentality. Was the film "good?" Did you like Brando's acting? Isn't Bertolucci a marvelous director? Was it, heh-heh, too explicit for you? Then, talk of what to do this evening, where to go next week -- a rapid shift of the attention that left no time for emotions to sink in. Escaping down 59th Street to Central Park, re-running the film in our minds...
This new regulation toward graduate students may be justified if there is abuse of the current system. When a voluntary sense of community fails, it is often necessary to institute formal and disagreeable regulations. I would submit, however, that abuse of scholarship programs by wealthy graduate students is trivial. I would also submit that abuse of the tenurial system by full professors is not trivial. If we are to have a Kraus formula for the former, let us have a similar formula for the latter. Perhaps a Committee of the Economics Department would be qualified to prepare such a formula...