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...senior at Radcliffe I would like to protest the present system of RGA elections. Each year for four years I have tried to cope with a slate of candidates completely unknown to me, in elections where there were either no significant issues, or where the candidates did not differ appreciably on those that existed. The small amount of campaign material put out by those in the running has not been adequate to form prejudices (except on the size of the posters), much less intelligent judgements. It would seem to me more sensible and effective if RGA officers were...
...real Franco-American differences, Kissinger suggests, stem more from the "philosophical issue of how nations cooperate" than from issues of technical strategy. As an example, he cites French and American interpretations of the Soviet situation which, in fact, do not radically differ...
...observe the 100th anniversary of the Ku Klux Klan. He asked: "Shall we permit faceless men, under cover of robes and darkness, to imperil the liberties of our people?" No, he answered, urging that the K.K.K. be investigated forthwith by the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Honest men may differ in the precise limitations of the word 'un-American,' but surely all agree that the activities which by force and violence seek to deprive others of rights guaranteed them by the Constitution are un-American...
...Flowers? Western experts differ widely on how far Russian economic reform can go, and what it means. "I think this is a permanent reform," says Pennsylvania's Herbert Levine, "except for a major outside political event. I don't expect that there will be an easy retrenchment to a central economy." But Stanford's Roger Freeman insists that it is "only a period-like China's 100-flowers period. It may appear to open up the Soviet Union, but eventually it must...
...comparison is about the nastiest accusation ever leveled against Adams, an urbane and skeptical politician who, for all his impatience with his contemporaries, respected their right to differ with him-most notably in his gallant defense of British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. Robespierre, by contrast, labored under a crabbed, crass perversion of Enlightenment philosophy that allowed no room for disagreement or human foible. Those who did not share that vision were packed off to the guillotine; some 17,000 were beheaded during the Terror. By equating Virtue with Terror, Robespierre set a comforting precedent for every subsequent despot from...