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...hole had been completely covered up. Uneasy, he came back next day with the deputies, who soon found the first dead man. What followed turned into a grisly mess that outranks the more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing of 16 by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower sniper; the gunning down of 13 people in Camden, N.J., by berserk Howard Unruh in 1949; the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity...
...among other goodies, an article by a first-year B-School student about the unfulfilled promise of the Coop. The other "good things to do" are political campaigning for liberal congressmen, skiing, hitch-hiking, visiting the countryside (illustrated by third-rate Sierra Club-style photographs adorned with Whitman quotes), and the Hasty Pudding Show. This latter good thing is a perfect demonstration of Three Thirty Five's lack of editorial credibility and clarity. I, for one, don't feel that a drag show put on for half-dead alumni deserves space over the worthier enterprises around Cambridge that have been...
...exertion is surely the especial task of the youth force of this venerable university. A government is almost always a dull institution, and its pride in pragmatism often blurs its vision of the human values and obligations. Yet tradition counts. The America of Lincoln and Franklin, of Emerson and Whitman may assert itself, and your great country's innate radiant faith in democracy and Human Rights may well flash against the slate-colored wisdom of low-flying polities. The declaration of independence of Bangla Desh is most likely to arouse the people whose inspiring history is founded on the Declaration...
Anderson's detailed readings can be brilliant, as in his exposition of Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry." But for a man who keeps demanding context and more context, he seems remarkably provincial. He acts as if the disintegration of "communal ties" were a problem invented by 19th century America. He is guilty of a crime of his own: thesis protecting. He neglects to point out that Emerson's "imperial self" was bred, after all, with the help of German philosophy. Every Zen trender can spot for himself the Oriental mysticism in Whitman, but as far as Anderson...
...disease, is at least as old as the Renaissance. One deplores with Anderson that "we have fallen out of love with society on this continent." But it is only another form of self-obsession to put the blame on a three-headed monster ego named Waldo Whitman James. · Melvin Maddocks