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...promise his audiences "a r-r-really big shew," and far more often than not he delivered. "Ed Sullivan was America's taste," observes Rivers, which is probably as good an explanation as any for the program's long-running success. A Manhattan-born sportswriter turned show-biz columnist for the New York Daily News, Sullivan had a reporter's instinct for what was hot, and he outhustled rivals to showcase new talent, notably Elvis Presley and the Beatles. And not just in pop. Sullivan proudly treated his audiences to classical excellence in the personae of opera diva Joan Sutherland...
Whether as a professor, a top policy advisor or a regular columnist in The Boston Globe, Feldstein certainly draws attention. Alumni officials say that the 51-year-old economist, who was class marshal of his 25th reunion, is one of the most widely-recognized professors at Harvard...
...classic example of the anti-war movement's new attitude toward American soldiers appeared in a column in this month's Perspective. "The American men and women fighting in the Persian Gulf and their families are heroes," the columnist wrote. "They deserve every bit of support and honor we can give them... They are there because Bush asked them to be, and we must respect the fact that they have no choice but to follow orders...
Make no mistake about it--many of the same anti-war activists who support the troops of Desert Storm find their mission to be, like Vietnam, immoral (and not simply unwise). In the words of the Perspective columnist, Desert Storm is "senseless, dehumanized, hypocritical violence instigated by the United States." But in the eyes of the anti-war movement, the agents of this immorality--American troops--share none of the blame for the conduct...
...same columnist noted that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did find individuals responsible during times like these. "Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions," the civil rights leader said in 1967, "but we all must protest" Clearly King believed that Americans on the home front should express their opposition to the Vietnam...