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...juste. "Epithalamion for Tyler" honors a friend woh has sewn a pig's ear to his sofa, and with it has "spirited" talks; no other word could have attributed to the friend the same aspect of intelligent playfulness. Then, too, Tate never dulls our brains or arouses our distrust by "poeticism," by obsolete ploys. He even lampoons such lapses of tact, as he prepares to hit us: with some genuine midcentury currency, as in, "The Cages...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: A Young Poet | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

Although halting the bombing might bring "more hope for negotiations," Reischauer said, there is little prospect of such a settlement "simply because the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese are so far apart and so distrust each other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reischauer Calls For Decrease in Vietnam Bombing | 2/1/1967 | See Source »

...statement of crimes" required by the National Defense Education Act needlessly singles out students as objects of suspicion and distrust. It demands that any undergraduate or graduate applying for NDEA money report convictions of all crimes and traffic violations punishable by more than a $25 fine. No other recipients of government largesse -- farmers or social security beneficiaries, for example -- are obligated to sign such a statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NDEA Crimes | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NDEA Crimes | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Unproductive Clichés. One key to the ultimate success of this process of partnership and interpenetration is the business community. Only recently, a paranoid distrust poisoned relations between the private and public sectors of the nation. There remain quite a few holdouts in both camps, but the instances of cooperation between the two are growing, notably in the space program and in the development of new educational tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: A Sense of What Should Be | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

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