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...Powers letter fails to distinguish between the two fundamentally different District 65 organizing drives at Harvard; nor does the letter even tacitly acknowledge the fact that the workers themselves originally invited District 65 to the Harvard campus and are themselves fully in control of the unionizing drive. To say that "District 65" drafted the newsletters is to distort patently the actual situation...
...made statements similar to those Carter made at South Bend, and Jackson's blatant pitch for ant-busing votes in Boston was particularly deplorable. But it is Carter who has carefully but deliberately injected the race issue into the current campaign, and it would be wrong to fail to distinguish between him and the other candidates on this question...
...generations we were confident that we could distinguish the sane from the insane. Now that confidence is vanishing, and the decade of the '60s did much to erode it. Nations and societies went crazy, as they had in the past, but this time they were collectively judged to be abnormal: society was blamed, not its members or its leaders. British Psychiatrist R.D. Laing took that view a step further, enunciating that in a crazy world even wildly abnormal personal behavior might be considered sane...
...other, easy simplifications that skirt the issues raised by such conversions. The basic flaw is that Diggins finds himself unable to achieve a serious interpretation of the intellectual evolution of these four men, due to his own preoccupation with the politics of the sixties and seventies. Unable to distinguish these intellectual conservatives from the likes of Nixon, he ends by trying to subtly discredit them. If it is true, as one former radical said, that "the final struggle will be between the communists and the ex-communist", then this prelude to that struggle surely deserves better...
...Saturday's slalom held in a downpour, Linsley was unable to race while both Singer and Wilson fell. "We did not distinguish ourselves," Singer remarked yesterday...