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Alluding to his harsh treatment of Bobby in recent months, including a brutal thrust in this month's Esquire, Murray Kempton was contrite. "Our politicians are just too vulnerable to be thought of in the old callous way," he wrote. "We must see them in life as we would in the shock of death when we would be conscious only of the good in them. The language of dismissal becomes horrible once you recognize the shadow of death over every public man. For I had forgotten, from being bitter about a temporary course of his, how much I liked...
LAND OF THE GUN, headlined a London Sun editorial. "Violence has become the brutal hallmark of the most prosperous and most powerful nation on earth." Added Britain's Lord Harlech, a longtime friend of Kennedy: "Violence in the U.S. has become a world scandal." France, which came within an inch of violent collapse last month, found time in its recovery to fret over U.S. government: "America dreamed of a government of judges," said Paris' Le Monde, "but it suffers the law of violent people." Said Combat of Paris: "America is mad." The Times of India, where politically inspired...
...those who were listening, listening to the war get worse and to the repression of demonstrations get more brutal, the time for the choice was zooming in very fast. Sitting on the sidelines, being cool-liberal and dispassionate was becoming irrelevant. The theme that the Washington demonstrators harped on was: if you're not with us, you're against...
That was October. Since then, the pressures of the war have gotten worse (drafting graduate students), and the repression of demonstrations has gotten more brutal (the bloody raid on Columbia). More people have gotten radicalized...
Last year it was The Dirty Dozen. This year it is the filthy 1,500, a mixed bag of World War II regimental rejects who hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...