Word: antiwar
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...they [antiwar demonstrators] are clean ... I have no objection to them. But if they look like they just came out of a rag bag, well I wonder. But even if they're not clean, they have thoughts and feelings, and I would as soon take their word about something as anyone else...
...poems which ends, "Oh, Statue of Liberty, raise up/ Your green, drowned woman's face/ Against this death of freedom." McCarthy asked Yevtushenko's translators: "Are we going to be associated with this crap, or shall we leave now?" He compromised by reading one of his own antiwar poems. Allen Tate dismissed Yevtushenko as "a ham actor," whose performances are a "vulgarizing of poetry...
Diverse Talents. What the President's latest surprise announcement did achieve was to throw his antiwar critics off balance at a time when the frustrating struggle in Indochina seemed to be reviving as a domestic political issue (see box, page 17). He noted that the conciliatory steps demanded by many Democrats had already been taken by him in private, and he assailed those in the U.S. who "have become accustomed to thinking that whatever our Government says must be false and whatever our enemies say must be true." Kissinger readily conceded afterward that "a very major objective" of the President...
Canada's Premier, the proud parent of month-old Justin Trudeau, was given a copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. "Very interesting," said Pierre Trudeau. "I knew he was an antiwar leader, but I never realized he knew anything about babies...
Still another theory is that the North Vietnamese have simply miscalculated the state of American feeling about the war. Recent foreign visitors to Hanoi have been surprised by the attitudes of North Vietnamese leaders, who seem to be convinced that the same antiwar genie that toppled Lyndon Johnson in 1968 can be rubbed back to life and turned against Richard Nixon this year. That suggests that, much as the U.S. misread the North Vietnamese when the massive American intervention in Indochina began, the North Vietnamese may now be misreading...