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Like the Austrian minister who became his greatest political hero, Kissinger has used his position in government as a protective cloak to conceal his larger ambitions and purposes. Far from being the detached, objective arbiter of Presidential decision-making, he has become a crucial molder and supporter of Nixon's foreign policy. Instead of merely holding the bureaucracy at comfortable arm's length, he has entangled it in a web of useless projects and studies, cleverly shifting an important locus of advisory power from the Cabinet departments to his own office. And as confidential advisor to the President, he never...
...disagree with what you say. but I will defend with my life your right to say it." In came the revolutionary ideals of Marceusse (?) "Free speech for those who believe in the revolution." If the FBI were to inquire after the facts, academic freedom would be invoked as a cloak to deny the public knowledge of what revolution Harvard students support...
...EXCUSE ME," the polite young man or woman in the long black cloak will say, "would you like to make a donation to our Church to help us with our programs for young people?" If you refuse, he or she will smile and turn away to someone else passing on the street. If you stop, and if you give some change and ask about it, you'll begin to hear about the Process, the Church that these evangelical fundraisers on various sidewalk stations in busy parts of Boston and Cambridge belong to. You'll be offered...
...picture had hung for years above the fireplace of a cottage in the Thames side village of Bray: a long-nosed, sallow ascetic with a scarred mouth, dressed in fur-trimmed doublet and dark scholar's cloak. A gold halo and inscription announce him to be St. Ivo, "the poor man's lawyer." Behind him, a window discloses silver water, trees, a farm, an arched bridge. The little panel (it measures 181 in. by 141 in.) had disappeared in the Middle Ages and reappeared late in the 19th century in the collection of the first Lord Newlands...
...seems to me, was the South Vietnamese government with its American apologists. Those who chanted and shouted down the speakers enabled a politically and morally bankrupt cause, a cause that something like three quarters of the American electorate has at last rejected, to wrap itself momentarily in the tattered cloak of intellectual freedom. In the present climate of opinion this kind of "radical" action becomes a repulsive form of bulling instead of a desperate attempt to be heard or to change the course of policy. It is ominous in other ways too. Just what degrees of difference in the interpretation...