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...doves came within one vote of victory; this year, the floor fight took just two hours and the vote, 64 to 21, was a resounding rebuff.* Administration spokesmen insisted that the ABM was an important "bargaining chip" in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks currently under way, a viewpoint rejected by doves in 1970 but embraced by a large majority of Senators in 1971. Even Kentucky Senator John Sherman Cooper, a leader of ABM foes in the past, urged passage of the appropriation...
...From the viewpoint of hagiography, the martyr is the ultimate Christian hero, the most noble of saints. Sociology, with a cooler eye, sees him as something else: a special kind of social deviant. As Sociologist Robert K. Merton points out, the "historically significant nonconformist," his own definition of martyr, often risks his life for a variety of motives, some noble, some not. There are cases, he notes, in which martyrdom may be little else than "an expression of primary narcissism" or "a need for punishment." Like Camus's Rebel, or Peter Viereck's "unadjusted man," the martyr...
Epps further comments that DiCara has a real chance since Boston voters don't consider him a Harvard-type but more "one of them...short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding." Genuine Harvard people, we must assume from Epps' viewpoint, are all tall, thin, straight-nosed, and hairy. Nowhere does Epps suggest that some Boston voters might have selected DiCara for his platform (or his understanding of their problems) rather than his nationality or looks. But then, that might be asking too much insight from the Crimson president whose narrow vision still very much reflects Harvard's W.A.S.Per-than-thou mentality...
From the Harvard viewpoint, Saturday's loss spoiled Joe Restic's debut, ended any Crimson hopes of an undefeated season, and ruined what should have been a pleasant opening day romp over a non-Ivy patsy. Injuries to Steve Harrison, Steve Golden, Eric Crone and others added to the Crimson's nightmares...
...author is clearly not as comfortable in dealing with the literary value of entertainment broadcasts, or with aesthetic endeavor in general; his eulogies of Norman Corwin, Archibald MacLeish and Paddy Chayefsky are embarassing, though they might not have been so if he'd have honed cleanly to a sociological viewpoint. His large chunks of political history often show an unsubstantiated leftist bias, particularly in his coverage of World War II political tensions...