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...girl- which is merely the skeleton. Segal cleverly dresses up his skeleton with class conflict- he chooses a poor Cliffie as the girl his richboy hero meets- and a sad ending. The sad ending is a good device: it prevents reviewers from degrading fiction by calling it "light" or "trivial...
THIS FAULT might seem trivial when placed next to the tremendous contribution which the book makes by simply exposing the nature of America's CBW potential. But a free lance Washington journalist, Sy Hersch, already had exposed the extent of America's CBW potential in a book published two years before. Indeed, it was not his discovery of CBW that pushed the Congressman into the national limelight. It was that McCarthy, the Representative in the House, was "disturbed" about CBW, and that he was going to do something about...
Always the social scientist, Gerzon avoids the droll stories, the epigrams and the sassy obscenity that made Kunen's Strawberry Statement so palatable. Whatever flavor there is in this book comes from a few sparse anecdotes which record the author's trivial brushes with the Establishment. In one encounter, a hawkish stewardess starts a discussion of the Vietnam war. She is confounded...
Nearly 200 newsmen milled about the small town (pop. 1,500), searching, mostly in vain, for a breaking story. Those facing hourly deadlines often latched onto one of the many rumors swirling about the closed hearing or resorted to writing in trivial detail about the "picturesque" town and the quaint quirks of some of its citizens. The real news, of course, was concealed behind closed doors, although as the inquest week went on, some significant facts leaked...
...atmosphere created in no small part by the shimmering set, the flashy clothes which Johnny and the bandleader wear (Johnny's wardrobe by Ol?g Cassim), the stylish bandleader. What people say on the show is fairly unimportant: deliberately, Carson keeps the conversation light, and-like the show itself-trivial...