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...resolution reads, in part, "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences expresses its revulsion at the terrorist bombing inflicted last December by the government of our country, and condems all the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages that our government has caused in Indochina for the past eight years...
...Apley was first published it was appreciated for its humor and satire. But since 1936 the world Marquand lampooned has passed away and so the satire is left without a target. While it is still amusing that George Apley "looks the other way" when passing what he considers the wanton materialism of the Harvard Business School, a modern Apley would be more tolerant of man's vanity...
...although you might think it is the Gem of Egypt [May 15]. In man's great haste to realize greater productivity, we shamelessly gouge 80-ft.-deep chunks of valuable land from the earth. Are the few dollars saved by this method of coal mining actually worth the wanton destruction of our environment? I don't think...
Hollywood's dark-haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because...
Anarchic murder is not new. It occurred during the European plague epidemics of the 16th century, when hooligans plundered at will, sometimes cutting the throats of the sick. It was common during the Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...