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Decent Liberal. Some eloquent and sympathetic passages from the report that were incorporated into President Johnson's famous Howard University address in June 1965, won universal applause. But in the weeks that followed, civil rights leaders became increasingly disturbed by blunter items from the report that leaked into newspapers and magazines. Many of the stories emphasized the report's sensational findings about the family, often overlooking Moynihan's analysis of the causes, notably centuries of discrimination and economic deprivation...
...blunter response was offered by Conservative William F. Buckley Jr., on a visit to Saigon, when asked whether the U.S. should extend the Tet truce...
...Talk. The first, which they adapted from the American Negro and learned during the civil rights marches, is the technique of the elaborate lie, the phony story that is aimed at gulling the listener and shaming him without his knowing it. The Gross-Out -or "garbage mouth"-is a blunter weapon. A group of young people in a club dominated by adults will suddenly begin chanting four-letter words, louder and filthier all the time, until they have completely disrupted the scene...
...tune for the Diem baiters, and now reports from Paris. Today, Viet Nam reporters hardly get along with each other at all. None but the remotest news is pooled. "I've never worked anywhere in the world where I liked fewer newsmen," admits one old hand. Says a blunter and younger type: "I hate every other goddamned newspaperman in this place...
...association's national secretary, L. A. Peter Gosling, associate professor of geography at the University of Michigan, was even blunter. Calling Wicker's article "factually inaccurate^" Gosling estimated that only one-third of the signers could be considered China experts. By paying $15-a-year dues, anyone who demonstrates an interest in Asia can join the association; members range from anthropologists to theologians to librarians. Moreover, charged Gosling, some of the signers do not belong to the association; nor was the entire membership contacted and given a chance to sign the paper. "It was disorganized," says Gosling. "They...