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...words are those of the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Better, I think, than any others, they characterize the mood of our generation. The Class of 1968 emerges from its campuses at the head of a rising tide of youthful dissatisfaction. It is too easy to dismiss the obvious malaise of youth as nothing but a new manifestation of the age-old conflict between parents and children. More is at issue here, much more. This generation wants not simply to replace its parents in the positions of power and prominence in American society, but, more importantly, to change that...
...interested to note that during the present soul-searching, a number of other publications have reached the same conclusion. News week, for example, in a thoughtful article entitled "Is the Press Biased?" observes: "Newsmen should be willing to dismiss the illusion that there is such a thing as 'pure objectivity' in reporting." In support of which the magazine quotes Bill Moyers to the effect that "of all the myths of journalism, objectivity is the greatest." Just...
...political philosopher] cannot dismiss too lightly the reproach of hard-headed politicians, that political theory has nothing whatever to do with political practice. Political theory, he must maintain, tries to explain what the practical politician is doing. It is not abstract, remote, or impractical...
...volunteers first converged on New Hampshire's snowfields six months ago, a vociferous assault on the Johnson Administration has broadened, with the President's abdication, into an offensive against the traditional machinery of the Democratic Party. "Clean Gene's" partisans and many Robert Kennedy dissidents alike dismiss the entire process-the Old Politics-as tired and untrue. Last week, while McCarthy sunbathed on a Minnesota lake, his volunteers, left idle since the end of the primary campaigns, geared up their own New Politics machine...
...vague in a Delphic way, and to some interpreters of the oracle it meant that De Gaulle, despite his decision to dismiss Pompidou, had actually settled on him as his successor in the presidency. Most people felt, however, that it was simply a case of an old man canning a younger potential rival who, in the words of one of Pompidou's aides, "had gotten too big too soon." Any doubt that Pompidou was sacked was more or less dispelled when Couve re appointed practically every Minister in the old Cabinet-an indication that De Gaulle wanted only...