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...seems an unknown quantity to his own Union Party, Chichester-Clark is regarded as an open book by his opponents. Fiery Bernadette Devlin, newly elected to the British Parliament, dismisses him as "just another squire." A student worker in civil rights grumbled that Chichester-Clark was "a hell of a name to paint on a banner." But the new man promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even...
...that he must be a critic of society and established values. Says M.I.T. Linguist Noam Chomsky: "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies." Unfortunately, human affairs often yield a multiplicity of truths, a fact that some intellectuals find hard to tolerate. In her book, Vietnam, Mary McCarthy made a strong case for U.S. withdrawal, but she rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human complexities seemed irrelevant. Philosopher Herbert Marcuse brilliantly analyzes flaws in U.S. society...
...antipragmatists have focused on the Viet Nam war as a classic case of myopic "crisis management." What seemed immediately workable, they say, was quickly done without regard to moral and political consequences. Noam Chomsky, a leading war dissenter, has lambasted such thinking in his acute if intemperate book, American Power and the New Mandarins. Chomsky cites one Far East expert who assured a congressional committee that the North Vietnamese "would be perfectly happy to be bombed to be free." Another scholar proposed that the U.S. tame China by buying up all surplus Canadian and Australian wheat...
...write a book? I don't know. I'm just writing it. You're just reading it. Let's not worry about...
James Simon Kunen is only 20, and the introduction to his new book, The Strawberry Statement (Random House; $4.95), sounds like it. The youthful don't give-a-damnedness is deceptive. Kunen is one of the student radicals who occupied the president's office at Columbia University last spring; his accounts at the time made fascinating reading in the Atlantic and New York magazines. Strawberry Statement covers much of the same ground but goes beyond Columbia. It is, in fact, the meandering but often perceptive journal of a young rebel with a sense of humor...