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Paul Couming had everything to lose. Long before it was popular, he was a conscientious objector. Long before it was cool, he, whose family scraped along on a janitor's salary, joined VISTA after getting out of Boston Tech. He had his C.O., and a nice cushy alternative service in Newton-Wellesley Hospital, but he felt he was needed at Boston City, so he transferred. He was safe-but he responded to calls for more anti-draft action by turning in his cards. Where were all those people who call for revolution? Perhaps Che really is right...
...Office of Economic Opportunity, manpower-training programs and encouragement of the poor to organize on their own behalf were designed to help adults. A big investment in education generally, with emphasis on remedial and preventive programs like Head Start, was designed to help their children. Finally, programs like VISTA aimed at enlisting other Americans in the war. Michael Harrington, whose 1962 book The Other America did much to focus affluent America's attention on its underclass, charges that federal statistics claiming advances amount to no more than the celebration of "paper triumphs." The evidence is with Harrington. While innovative...
Nixon announced that he will soon ask Congress to merge the Peace Corps, VISTA and several other activities into a volunteer corps for national and international service under the leadership of Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford. Said the President: "I intend to make it an agency through which those willing to give their lives and energy can work at cleaning up the environment, combatting illiteracy, malnutrition, suffering and blight either abroad or at home...
...Line. Painters had been generalizing about Rome for decades -nearly every young English lord on the grand tour would, as a matter of course, have some virtuoso paint his portrait with an ancient bust or two in the background, along with some emblematic columns. But every building and vista in Ingres' Roman portraits was specific and exact. Madame Guillon-Lethière and her son rise against a background of the Spanish Steps, not like personages in a theater of antiquity, but as people confidently occupying space in a real landscape. Civil Engineer Charles Francois Mallet poses...
...also liked Karen Black's performance and a scene where Jack Nicholson sits down to play the piano in Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces, a slick film about alienation which seemed to cut away to a Laszlo Kovacs Easy Rider scenic vista whenever something seemed about to happen; Alan Arkin's Yossarian in Mike Nichols' Catch-22; Carrie Snodgress's heroine and Frank Perry's paranoiac camera work in the somewhat overdrawn Diary of a Mad Housewife; Charles Bronson's headstrong investigator in Rene Clement's Rider on the Rain; the dripping decadence and provocative idea behind Performance...