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...sniffers" and laser-guided bombs and helicopters could not ultimately, not really, enforce the American will. Of more psychic importance, the war may have forever soured the almost subconscious, idealized conviction that Americans are somehow morally superior beings. My Lai, the massive bombing campaign, the image of a napalmed child???such things have corroded the American selfesteem. But how deeply...
...never-say-die rationality, a formidable ability to put his life in order and his work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody, amuse a child???all at the same time. His talent for patterns has made him a passionate crossword puzzler and anagrammarian (these days, though, he feels guilty about being caught wasting time, and hides crossword puzzles inside scores or books...
...able to decide between them? True, Col. Lindbergh had the opportunity o; showing a front as grim as any stern old Roman, to whom the life of a son counted as nothing against the fair fame of his State. Such a man might say: "A child is only a child???one may have many children?but bright Justice shall not be prostituted to the dark gods of the under-world...
...WISE CHILD???Among others in the cast, a funny iceman (TIME...
...WISE CHILD???A tale of garbled parenthood, sometimes funny (TIME...