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...Criticism that Allied Forces Do Not Fight Enough at Night. This was a valid criticism at one time, but it is not true today. During the first three months of this year, there were 629 ambushes-mostly at night-sprung on the enemy by friendly forces, as opposed to only 81-mostly during the day-initiated by the enemy...
...argue that power at Columbia should be redistributed; it is harder to say how. Quite clearly, students have neither the maturity, time, permanent interest nor long-range commitment to play more than a contributing role. Quite clearly also, Columbia cannot accept guerrilla warfare against the administration as a valid strategy to achieve campus change. Columbia's highly individualistic faculty, while renowned for scholarly excellence, has never been noted for its community, responsiveness, or for desire to undertake the drudgery of administrative responsibility. Thus the task Columbia faces in rethinking its goals and organization may be as traumatic and difficult...
...which may be either polygamous or monogamous." Nor does polygamy violate the concept of "one flesh." Just as "the several children of one mother may be regarded as 'one flesh' with her by reason of their unity in generation and maternal love," he writes, "in a socially valid polygamous marriage a man may be conjugally united with each of his wives respectively, since each does become with him 'one flesh...
...either in thrall to Hemingway's ideal of verbal simplicity or overflowing with a new kind of personal, revival-meeting combustion that lies somewhere between caterwauling and glossolalia. But prose style is one of the minor differences between Updike and his contemporaries. The larger fact is that however valid his own objectives and achievements, he has ignored the mainstream of contemporary Western fiction. The French, in the roman nouveau, have reduced the novel to a random series of received sounds and images; the English are tearing apart seven centuries of established order...
...rebel, THX 1138 4EB, running toward the camera of a closed-circuit television instantly evokes a gut empathetic reaction, and the color and opticals (dissolves mostly) are employed with flair and discipline. If it all seems insubstantial when it's over, at least Lucas has made a valid stylistic exercise from a serviceable cinematic premise...