Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpleasant Fact. Like everybody else, columnists were taken by surprise. Nevertheless, New York Post Theater Critic Richard Watts Jr. found the wit to quip that "it is safe to predict that someone will soon be blaming Lyndon Johnson for the whole ugly Middle Eastern crisis." Sure enough, someone soon was. The very next day, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Columnist Marquis Childs declared that the "real significance" of the war is that the "Johnson brand of consensus diplomacy has disastrously failed"-an interpretation that, had they read it, would have certainly startled the Arabs and Israelis-not to mention the Russians...
...blood-spoor lingers on the air. MacBird begins with a ritual murder and then fails both to implicate and to absolve its audience; the result is an experience of bland and almost complete detachment, and a document in the history of this tired old polis where agent and activity, critic and establishment, medium and message, are pathlogically identical...
Double Standard. The clearest enunciation of this curious double standard came from Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian (The Guns of August) Barbara Tuchman, a critic of the Administration on Viet Nam. In a letter to the Washington Post and the New York Times, she declared that the way to cope with the Mideast crisis was "not by futile fiddling in the U.N. but by straightforward independent action, the only kind that can be effective." The kind, she might have added-but did not-that has earned the Administration brick bats when it comes to Viet Nam. Tuchman concluded with what sounded remarkably...
...open war does come, Eshkol last week relinquished the post of Defense Minister that he had kept for himself and turned it over to General Moshe Dayan, 52, the dashing, one-eyed hero of the Sinai campaign and an ally of ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, now a chief critic of Eshkol...
Thus Culture Critic Lewis Mumford (The City in History, The Highway and the City) decides that present ideas of man's inevitable dependence on science and technology are nonsense. Modern man, he says, is a victim of a "radical misinterpretation" of human development. Furthermore, the machine will either turn him into a collectivized, automatic non-person or blow him back to the jungle. The Myth of the Machine is hybrid literature-part history, part anthropology, part poetry. It is a violent, splenetic attack on much that has happened in civilization for the past several millennia, and it occasionally approaches...