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...bitter lesson in the first rule of journalism (as true in International politics as in University affairs): All officials distort if necessary in order to defend decisions they have made. To defend the decision to stick with Diem, embassy, CIA, and military officials reported to Washington a wrongly optimistic picture of the state...
...should universities operate their research centers and applied sciences labs in relation to educational requirements? To what extent will federally sponsored research distort the universities' aims and functions? How can engineering and basic research grow without greatly increasing federal support? Where can efficiency be increased...
...facts of the White Paper distort the reality, the liberal says, it is distortion in the good cause of holding Vietnam. And better to hold here, where the peninsula may still be defended, than to fall back to positions which will again be made untenable. If the Asian peninsula falls to the Chinese, the liberal argues, Japan and India might reconsider their relations with a power whose influence is waning in the East. Those are the real stakes, for which the liberal is willing to bear an extremely dirty war in Vietnam...
...concentrate on California teenagers is to distort the true picture. Southern California is, as everyone knows, the catchall for the rejects, materialists and rootless pleasure seekers. Naturally our faults would be grossly magnified there. Most teen-agers are interested in much more. True, we have little respect for authority, but that is because authority has failed to earn our respect. Since the adult world, in its headlong worship of money, has failed to give us worthwhile goals, we have to establish...
...would like to express to you the dismay which I felt--and which many persons of my acquaintance share--toward your handling of the recent Class Marshal elections. I believe that you contorted facts, if you did not distort them, to convey to you readers the personal contempt and great amusement with which you viewed the entire affair...