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...could accuse Henry Kissinger of lacking sobriety. In his most recent book, The Necessity For Choice, he dares to dwell at length on possibilities the mere mention of which sends otherwise calm men into intellectual St. Vitus Dance. Kissinger's critics err grievously when they accuse him of being war-happy; on the contrary, he sometimes seems to be infected, in a unique way, with the same thermonuclear paranoia that vitiates the thinking of his opponents. For example, he provides a precise, methodical critique of summit conferences as substitute for well- formulated policies, but he might well jeoparadize his position...
...visiting American, life at New College seems to be a curious combination of the very primitive and very elegant. Certainly the 14th Century architecture is as uncomfortable to dwell in as it is beautiful to look at. Through the magnificent arches, behind the Gothic windows, lie dark little rooms with gloomy, yellow wallpaper. Some of them have no hot water, and where this is so, their occupants have to use a great church-like building that houses nothing but baths, rows and rows of them...
...agonies of a man who has tied himself unwillingly, irrevocably, to a wretched fellow human whose claim is based subtly on weakness. Author Matthiessen has successfully brought off something more than a war novel. The reader cannot avoid thinking of all the Raditzers he ever knew; he may even dwell uneasily, however briefly, on the Raditzer-Charlie Stark amalgam in himself...
EMPERORS are popularly thought to dwell in gilded palaces, but one of the world's few surviving emperors has lived for the past 15 years in a concrete air-raid shelter. See FOREIGN NEWS, Emperor's Year...
Those of us who dwell in the military environment will be first to admit that there is a great deal of waste in the armed services, as there is in any gigantic or widespread business enterprise, and that it should be remedied...