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...lighting in the museum is so bad that the guards have been known to pass out flashlights. These friendly gentlemen delight in the hours they spend relating charming bits of essentially useless information. One took half an hour to explain to me that Count Thommasso Inghirami is cross-eyed...
...into clearings to feed, and bull alligators bellow in vain for the battalions of space workers who used to feed them marshmallows and jelly doughnuts. On Pad 19, from which Gemini astronauts rose on ten missions to perfect the techniques of rendezvous and docking, the bright orange tower lies useless, flat on its back. The once-gleaming white room where Gemini spacemen had their last look at earth before liftoff now houses wild rabbits...
...Gulag, of impartial officials and "broken consciences." It may be--it is hopefully--an isolated instance. But whenever a human being is considered manipulable, formable, breakable, at the last; whenever he is considered to be of no intrinsic worth, but only a thing, a useful thing or a useless thing; whenever the human being is mocked and broken, and right and wrong fall silent or are cast out, the admonitory finger of Solzhenitsyn points as firmly at us as it does at his own countrymen. He reminds us that the place "beyond freedom and dignity" is a place of cruelty...
...late 20th century, it is unlikely that a dogmatic ideological totalitarianism will ever take root. But the apathy in moral questions to which a pluralistic society may so quickly lead is more insidious than authoritiarian strictures, but it is not less dangerous. At a time when, weary of useless strife and a long war waged in vain, the emphasis, particularly at the university, is on the equivalent value of a wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity--or docility and moral resignation--it is a good and necessary thing to remember that...
...week, however, he admitted on NBC'S Today show that he had received some illicitly obtained documents from Kissinger's office in the form of "roughs" and "carbon copies." He had not closed off this "back channel" of information, he said, because everything he got was "essentially useless." In any case, he later got the same information through regular contacts with the White House. Moorer's confession left many viewers incredulous. Was he saying that, if the information he was receiving on the "back channel" had proved to be essentially useful, he would have choked...