Word: excerpting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting from Viet Nam. This amateur psychiatry, talking about things like machismo-if that's what he does-is nonsense." Walt Rostow, former Kennedy and Johnson aide and now a professor of history at the University of Texas, has an article in the December Esquire replying to an excerpt from The Best and the Brightest. "From 1961 to 1968," he writes, "I believed the war could only be materially shortened by putting substantial U.S. forces on the ground." But he denies Halberstam's charge that he ever said the war would end in six months...
...problem is not too little freedom but too much. For her pains, Midge Decter has already been called "neurotic," described as plumbing "new depths in the art of petty arrogance," and summarily notified she is "full of s-" in the letters column of the Atlantic, where an excerpt from her case against Women's Liberation appeared...
...Zurich, pointedly requesting that he be sure to bring Edith along. The Swiss authorities were acting at the instigation of McGraw-Hill, which had originally planned to publish the Hughes book in March. Much of the information the police worked with had been gathered by LIFE, which was to excerpt the autobiography in three issues this month.* They also had an interest all their own, since Helga had employed a forged Swiss passport in opening the Zurich account. On the other side of the Atlantic, there was also official interest: New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, the U.S. Postal...
...Ambassador Charles W. Yost and ex-Saturday Review Publisher Norman Cousins for soon-to-be ex-U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. Borrowing Folk Singer Pete Seeger's guitar, Lennon stepped up to the mike with Yoko to give out with a peace song he had written. Excerpt: "Imagine no countries/ nothing to kill or die for/ no religion too./ Imagine all the people/ living for peace." U Thant put it differently. "The single most important impediment to global institutions," he said, "is the concept of 'my country, right or wrong...
...Times They Are A-Changin') to celebrate such bland delights as country pie and copper kettles, is out with a new single in the old angry mode, mourning the death of Soledad Brother George Jackson, killed three months ago in an escape attempt at San Quentin prison. Excerpt: "The prison guards they cursed him,/ As they watched him from above./ But they were frightened by his power,/ They were scared of his love./ Lord, Lord, so they cut George Jackson down./ Lord, Lord, they laid/ Him in the ground...