Word: carlsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story about Dr. Carlson and the Congo [Dec. 4] was all the more moving because of its restraint. Carlson, picked out and identified but carefully not glorified, shines like a good deed in a very naughty world -to whose conscience you spoke very clearly...
...Paul Carlson's pastor, I wish to express my deepest appreciation for the magnificent way that you told the story of his martyrdom...
...surgeon in training who has had experience with medical missions, I could not help wincing as I read the gruesome, gory details of the Congo massacre [Dec. 4]. Dr. Paul Carlson's death is immeasurably tragic. But we know this won't discourage others in our profession from making humanitarian missions to people who need our help very badly, like the Africans whom we should pity more than loathe for that barbaric deed...
...Your attempt to depict the actions of a small and fanatic group as expressive of Africa and Africans generally would, I suspect, have distressed Dr. Carlson himself. Similar tragedies have been enacted among many peoples and in many periods of history, and surely the point of Conrad's story is that the "heart of darkness" lurks...
...Year I nominate Dr. Paul Carlson...