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...minutes. Why her violent reactions? Explains Claudia: "My strong opinions about anything bad originate from the fact that it makes me suffer so much. It makes me desperate. It kills me." When she retires, the Trib will pay a high compliment to her energy and enterprise. It will assign two men to cover the beat that until now has been handled by one woman...
...these kids of the tragic view of life," says English Teacher Bruce MacDonald at Yale. "They know life is tough." Typically, the schools get the students up at 5:30 a.m., work them until noon, cart them off on tours of civic and his torical sites in the afternoon, assign three hours of homework, and provide time for the kids to have long talk sessions with advisers. Many of those who show promise will be given preferential admission if they apply to the same college after high school graduation. Integrated Seagulls. The main challenge to teachers...
Both memoirists assign to Kennedy what Sorensen calls "many and serious mistakes." Both admire Kennedy's insistence on bearing the public blame for the fiasco. Sorensen recalls how Kennedy told a news conference the obvious fact that he was "the responsible officer of government," after remarking ruefully: "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan." Yet Sorensen also remembers how, while walking in the White House garden the same day, Kennedy "told me, at times in caustic tones, of some of the other fathers of defeat who had let him down." The "fathers" were the new President...
...often that TIME overlooks a major point in the analysis of a touchy political situation, but in my opinion this has happened with regard to Viet Nam. Any meaningful discussion of the causes and solutions of Communist aggression in Southeast Asia must assign special significance to the population expansion. How can we win a war against a never diminishing enemy...
...Your Essay "Commencement 1965: The Generational Conflict" [TIME, June 18], interested me greatly. It seems to me that the only way to contest the smug classification of commencement themes would be to assign the speeches to the poets and the artists, who would not repeat the cliched coaxings and admonitions that you claim the young listener is not listening to. They would exercise their talents of originality, observation and illustration so that the listener may evaluate and re-evaluate his standards...