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Later Ellsberg told of his own con version. He had come to Viet Nam a "superhawk," but changed when con fronted with the cavalier shooting of villagers from U.S. helicopters ("like herding cattle with a pickup truck in Montana"), the corruption of South Vietnamese officials, the squandering of U.S. tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: In Their Own Defense | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

With his great talent, he displayed a cavalier attitude toward the mundane aspects of his work, which sometimes invited criticism. He scorned rehearsals, frequently played hooky and provoked one conductor to waspishly observe that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnificent Giant | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

Some survivors conclude, unconsciously, that they got out because they possessed a kind of magic invincibility For them, survival is "the moment of power," as Social Critic Elias Canetti puts it, and can confer a lasting sense of being in command of death. In other cases, a feeling of invulnerability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Air Crash Survivors: The Troubled Aftermath | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

You have tipped your hand by using the word "columnist" or its equivalent, 27 times in the first half of the article. The only times you do not use the indefinite article is when you refer to Alsop and Anderson, and this is done in such a cavalier fashion that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D.C. MACHISMO | 10/12/1972 | See Source »

Williams, ranked second in New England to Harvard, comes to Cambridge on Saturday. That game may yield Munro a more valid evaluation of the squad than yesterday's cavalier effort against mediocre competition.

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Harvard Booters Breeze Past Mediocre MIT, 5-0 | 9/28/1972 | See Source »

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