Word: courteousness
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...talk. Each time the Secretary tried to answer a question, he was shouted down. Irked by one heckler, he yelled: "You come up here-you seem to have all the answers." Finally giving up, he shouted: "When I was a student at Berkeley, I was both tougher and more courteous than you are today." While some students continued to hoot, others yelled for quiet. Cops formed a wedge to lead McNamara through the mob, then took him away through underground food tunnels. In his wake, scuffles broke out between his defenders and detractors...
...protest commensurate with the requirements of conscience, one should certainly wait for the Nuremberg trials that will follow the present period of unrest. There, by orderly procedure of law, the matter of responsibility for the fine-deaths of farmers will undoubtedly be considered and reconsidered by reasonable, courteous, duly designated judges. At that time and at that time only will it be appropriate to cast aspersons on the activities of a head of state and his closest lieutenants, and to detain them at their possible inconvenience to answer questions regarding the ultimate morality of the actions under consideration...
...skeptical of "free world" rhetoric. But, as Scheer said in his speech at the demonstration, those who employ that rhetoric have a duty to be consistent. It was not courteous to refer to Krushchev as "the butcher of Budapest." But if Krushchev was the butcher of Budapest then McNamara and Johnson are the butchers of Vietnam. If my hypothetical Moscow U. students would have been profoundly in order "physically confronting" Krushchev, then 800 Harvard students were profoundly in order in physically confronting McNamara. Talk of "courtesy" is in the worst taste when butchery is the issue...
...Constituent Assembly. Mme. Xa for the first time has a platform to match her talents. "As the only woman here," she says, "I must accept the responsibilities that should have been distributed more evenly among the millions of us in Viet Nam. Everyone so far has been quite courteous about that." And why not? As Saigon Deputy Dang Van Sung admits: "Who dares attack her? You have to be as careful as you would holding a fresh egg in your hand." A mischievous gleam in her eyes, Mme. Xa concurs: "After all, I also represent the Deputies' wives...
...swishing back and forth through the crowd, small groups settled in the grass close to the steps of Widener, stalks broken by the wind. One group was a choir of southern accents; to an ear usually stung by New England dipthongs, it was like hearing a debate between very courteous, very distant train whistles...