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Essence & Integrity. The better the defense, the crueler the dilemma for Buddhists and the more awkward the questions that arise. Can Buddhism accommodate itself to nationalism and the modern desires for material advancement, which are seemingly the very opposite of Buddhist doctrine? The author's answer: "If Buddhism does not adapt, it will become a cultural fossil. If it adapts too much, it becomes adulterated and loses its essence and integrity." It is the search for the middle way between these two alternatives, suggests Schecter, that causes the painful grimace so often discernible today on the new face...
...WILD DUCK. The APA Repertory Company touches off match flares of understanding in Henrik Ibsen's examination of the human havoc that can result from too ruthless a devotion to honesty, but its production, while accomplished, is a trifle too cozy to carry off the playwright's crueler intention: to drag everyone and everything into unrelenting light...
...cozy when it should be caustic, chucklesome when it should roar with outraged laughter, genteelly aggrieved when it ought to be spurting pain. The APA troupe does its customarily accomplished job of acting and touches off sporadic match flares of understanding throughout the play, but Ibsen had a crueler intention: to drag everything and everyone screaming into unrelenting light...
After an astonishingly productive first session in 1965, this year the 89th rested -all but inert-on its laurels. Presented with 25 major bills in early 1966, it had taken final action on just seven as last week began. The crunch was all the crueler because 35 Senators and all 435 Representatives are up for re-election Nov. 8. Some from nearby states shuttled almost daily between home-state campaigning and Capitol Hill; others with particularly tough races had not turned up in Washington for weeks; some lived too far away to do anything but clench their teeth and stay...
...separate attacks on Administration war policy mounted by two New Frontiersmen who stayed on a while under L.B.J. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, former White House Aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. scored Johnson for "piling on all forms of power without regard to the nature of the threat." Crueler, and more ironic, was the attack by former Speech Writer Richard N. Goodwin. Addressing the Americans for Democratic Action in Washington, Goodwin assailed the President for engaging in "deliberate lies and distortion" in his war pronouncements-some of which, during Goodwin's White House days, he himself had helped...