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Many people misunderstand action. They think that a more timid action shows a more relative position. It may show an uncertain state of mind. It does not show a firmly committed mind that realizes that the war is, in some absurd simplification, only 60 per cent wrong. If you believe that the war is wrong, it becomes totally wrong when you decide to act. You cannot march with one foot in a YAF parade and the other in an SDS demonstration. Therefore, once the decision to fight is made. it is made absolutely. If that decision is not made...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: In Defense of Terrorism | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...honor. Citing his outstanding record in scholarship and social activism, the paper said. "The important consideration is one of proportion. To judge a man as full of variety as DuBois by looking at only an eighth or ninth of his life-and that portion the last one-is absurd...

Author: By Lee A. Daniels, | Title: W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Park Dedicated Amid Heated Criticism | 10/20/1969 | See Source »

...that the Moratorium is "counterproductive" because it comes at a time when the North Vietnamese are shaping their post-Ho policies. Vice President Spiro Agnew discreetly withdrew from an Oct. 15 New Jersey political dinner to avoid becoming a target for protesters. The Vice President denounced M-day as "absurd." Almost simultaneously, Republican National Chairman Rogers C.B. Morton was calling the Moratorium "a good thing," provided that it remained nonviolent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STRIKE AGAINST THE WAR | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...resort for the party's annual meeting, however, they were beginning to wonder whether they would ever get a chance to prove it. The idea that the Conservatives could lose the next election, which Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson might call as early as next spring, once seemed absurd. Not any longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Richard III Rides Again | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

Lebowitz has to be more specific. cut out a territory for himself somewhere between that of the dark humorist and the satirist. Willie's America is neither absurd nor gross. It is instead a wilderness, populated by fleshy people who act out vacuous models of existence that they are helpless to change...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: From the Shelf Climbing Willie's Ladder | 10/16/1969 | See Source »

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