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...rebellion. It is unrealistic to hope that the government officials would later abide by a constitution similar to the one against which they rebelled. Wilson recognizes the need for short-term British control. Yet he also sees that the threat of continued colonialism under an Executive Council might create diehard resistance to settlement which could only be broken by military force. Wilson's plan strikes a balance between the conciliatory and aggressive alternates...
Flaherty has always had his detractors. Diehard documentarists call him a showman who manipulated reality. Commercial moviemakers fault him as a glorified shutterbug too lazy or too dumb to write a script. But what his critics fail to see is that Flaherty was not so much a director as a seer. His films are the visions of the original unity of God, nature, man. They confront modern man with his primordial being. They say in fundamental images what Blake said in fundamental words: "Everything that is, is holy...
Indeed, the only diehard Middle Eastern nation left on the militant left at the moment is Syria, where the ruling socialist Baath Party clearly feels betrayed by the new look. "Arab revolutionaries cannot fail to note the current reactionary tide in the Middle East," said the chief party newspaper in Damascus last week. However the hot heads in Syria might feel, the rest of the Middle East was plainly looking forward to the welcome touch of cooler, quieter political weather...
...rights in the 1964 campaign. While Holton loyally supported Goldwater last year, Godwin whistle-stopped through Virginia with Mrs. Lyndon Johnson on her Lady Bird Special. To many Negroes and liberals, a vote for Godwin was simply a vote of confidence for the Great Society, whose goals he endorsed. Diehard white supremacists from both parties bolted to the conservative candidate, William Story, a Birchite, and to George Rockwell of the American Nazi Party. The last count: Godwin, 248,753; Holton, 194,507; Story, 69,724; Rockwell, 6,366. Of some 80,000 Negroes who voted, an estimated 60,000 went...
...their haste to indicate their abhorrence and hate of war they mistakenly attack the symptoms of war (Marines arriving by train in San Francisco for embarkation to Vietnam) instead of attacking the causes of war (breakdown of diplomacy and communications; ignorance and poverty; charismatic and poor leadership; adherence to diehard, hard-line communism; desire for the better things of life which the normal and present channels of growth can not immediately provide...