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Third-Party Hope. Raising the number of U.S.-proposed sites to 15 seemed mainly a ploy to demonstrate that the U.S. was open-minded. North Viet Nam dismissed the four criteria as "absurd and insolent," and termed the lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have come to doubt that the North Vietnamese will accept any place on earth first suggested by the U.S. Accordingly, Washington let it be known that it was seeking proposals from third parties. At the U.N., Arthur Goldberg conferred with Secretary-General U Thant. In Washington, Rusk chatted with Soviet Ambassador...
...absurd that they should review student affairs and not have student members," one participant said. Others felt that "rhetoric" and "institutionalization" would deprive the new committee of much of its practical value as a place for dialogue between "two generations...
Hanoi responded with chilling logic that "the absurd and insolent conditions" the United States has attached to peace talks show that our government is not seriously seeking to negotiate an end to the war. It seems likely that Administration hawks, cheered on by the liberation of Khe Sanh, are pressing for fresh escalation. And the record intensity of bombing raids these last two days suggests they have gotten what they wanted...
...came two more trend setters. The first was Lolita, a hollow, literalized adaptation of the book, for which it can be said only that it wore basic black before black comedy was fashionable. The other, Dr. Strangelove, was a major American contribution to the furiously active cinema of the absurd...
...been staying there since April 4," Callaway said, "when the police lodged their first complaint. We were supposedly housing over ten people a night, which would qualify us as a rooming house and require a license. The absurd changes were dropped, of course, but we closed temporarily...