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...notes that he never entirely succeeded in sloughing off the element of Catholic puritanism that had been bred in him as a child. Even as late as 1948, in A Rage to Live, O'Hara struck a rather stern tone. His subject-controversial at the time-was an upper-class woman named Grace Caldwell, who suffered from a lust that first shocks and surprises her, then comes to determine her conduct...
Since Kael is so loyal a defender of youth vis-a-vis "the riot movie fad" it seems treacherous to fault her on the subject. Nevertheless, while she treats upper-class enervation as a given, when Antonioni's activist youths (Zabriskie Point) are zombies it means he is alienated. The assumption blights her reasoning. Especially since she insists the America is a better place to live than Antonioni makes it out to be - which puts her on the side of straight liberal anti-radical youth...
Therefore even more of our teaching fellows will come from middle and upper-class families, which is not only grossly unfair but unfortunate in that it is conducive to greater uniformity within the University. Scholarships are to be awarded by the various departments on a "merit" basis, which can only lead to a suppression of academic (not to mention political) dissent, as students race with each other to please the appropriate members of the Faculty. There will be no aid beyond the fifth year, which means that teaching fellows will be less interested in undergraduates and more concerned with getting...
...because they feared civil chaos, but because of widespread expectations that Thieu might extend the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. A very few South Vietnamese suddenly decided that it was time to "visit relatives in Paris." But there was no exodus by Thieu's middle-and upper-class constituency, and no important defections from his regime. The coup rumors that floated through Saigon's cafes only a month or two ago had faded away, although, like the fighting war, they could resurface with a vengeance at any time...
...Overseers. It should be clear that the Signet Society is only slightly more qualified to judge radical poetry than is Dean Dunlop to judge the "competence" of Professor Guinier, yet apparently Rich expected something more advanced, more avant-grade--or, at least, more subtle--from the guardians of upper-class culture, Well, even angles fart, and so must the sweet Signet subtlety occasionally sour. The elegant left (left of Eliot and Pound, that is) revealed its imperial purple this time, exposing itself as actually being scarred by the workshops of history. Yes, the Signet Society is "male-dominated": this sexism...