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Commencement speakers generally applauded today's activist students for their idealism and courage. "You have reminded us that our powerful nation runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific...
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...
Civilian Shields. In the fighting throughout the country, the Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...
Hochhuth portrayed Pius XII as a Machiavellian "inverted mystic" who hoped to use Hitler to save Europe from Communism. The Churchill of Soldiers seems to be an equally callous caricature. According to the play, Britain's wartime Prime Minister (played by Otto Hasse) was a tragic figure who authorized immoral acts in hopes of saving his nation. Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling for an investigation of the Katyn massacre of 4,253 Polish military prisoners...
Aston, that he will be made a caretaker for their property. Lured into relying on the favor of each brother in turn, he is humiliated by both and finally gets a callous heave...