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Sir/What "Cuban Dilemma" [Jan. 15]? Let our Swiss intermediaries cool it on the negotiations to return hijackers. America should definitely continue the time-and morality-honored custom of protecting refugees. American hijackers can stay in Fidel's sugar fields with overseers with whips and guns...
...official arguments for fighting it kept changing?and kept being undermined. How could a war to stop Communist expansion be explained when President Nixon was making friends with the leaders of the two great Communist powers? To a country that takes pride in being practical, the Viet Nam dilemma seemed insoluble and ultimately too expensive by any reckoning. Morally expensive, as well. Too many memories, from My Lai to the massive bombing of last Christmas, would continue to weigh on the American spirit...
Tuchman finds herself approaching this gap with a few bridges, and little confidence in those she has. At points Notes From China is about the dilemma of a journalist reporting on China, not the country itself. Ultimately, she discovers that while she has at long last been admitted to China, she is still studying it from a considerable distance...
...sensuality as an aesthete. His camera watches events from afar. He takes all the passion out of sex and leaves the tingles in. Emotions are distilled and cooled--the stakes are never high enough, the risks never dangerous enough to justify Frederic's final melodramatic reconciliation. The moral dilemma is but a petty adulterous desire, just the germ of a story. And Rohmer strains it into artistic proportions it doesn't deserve. In the end, Frederic's irresolution makes him into less of a man. He hoards the familiar and circumscribed life he knows; and it is only a bourgeois...