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...years ago this month, the North Vietnamese swept down the map like the blade of a guillotine. They came in full divisions, with artillery and tanks. They banged across the countryside like Patton. It was no longer the endless, hallucinatory Viet Nam at all, but blitzkrieg, Western war, all of those years of inconclusive struggle finished off briskly in a short, surreal spring...
...Many antiwar protesters were sincerely trying to find answers to the profound moral questions Viet Nam raised about the legitimate uses of American power, and about the nature of the struggle in Indochina. The questions the war raised--in some ways, still raises--were endless. Were the Americans acting as idealists, honoring a treaty commitment to an ally and defending freedom against Communist aggression? Or were they anti-Communist crusaders who committed atrocities against a land of peasants? Were the North Vietnamese under Ho Chi Minh austere and virtuous folk heroes, or murderous, Stalinist totalitarians who committed barbarities far worse...
...self- anointed reverend who believes he gets messages directly from God--and who just may be right; a son, a self-aggrandizing deserter from World War II who has a diminishing grasp of reality; a daughter who copes with life's problems by stuffing her ears with an endless supply of cotton wool, then humming loudly; and the daughter's infant child, who is hopelessly deformed yet somehow survives. The action starts with the family's kidnaping of the baby from a hospital; it ends, after a cross-continental trek, at a revivalist religious meeting in Moose Jaw, Sask., where...
...Black Harvardians you are definitely at an intellectual center of the planet, renowned since 1636. It is important to know its history and to view yourselves as one more of an endless line of marching men and women who are marked by the singular characteristic of an intense capacity to explore that great enigma, Verities. You are surrounded by positive symbols of gigantic intellectual and moral accomplishment. The challenge to the mind and will is to immerse yourself in, and identify boldly with, the positive aspects of those symbols. Never let the ever-present negatives of this world define your...
...absorb than to emit. Absorb the riches and inaximize the character. Everyone is assimilating your dynamic music, hip language, new perspectives: your culture, Do not be afraid to ingest a quantum of James Russell Lowell, John F. Kennedy, or An Wang without fear of losing your identity. Engage in endless positive dialogue both with those whom you wish to shape and those by whom you wish to be molded...