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...far-away country of which we know little" was how Neville Chamberlain dismissed Czechoslovakia at Munich. Forty years later, do we really know (or care) that much more about what is happening in Eastern Europe today? Granted this has been a "Human Rights" year; the Harvard community this summer sat reverentially through Solzhenitzyn's Commencement speech condemning the West's lack of resistance to the Soviet Union--and of course we all condemned the show trials of the Helsinki monitoring group. But blandly cheering on courageous dissidents like Ginzburg and Scharansky as they take part in some goodies vs. baddies...
...this disease is reflected in the press. In-depth analysis of a problem is anathema to the press. There is a dangerous tendency to form a herd, shutting off successful development [of independent thought]. I have received letters in America from highly intelligent persons, maybe a teacher in a far-away small college, who could do much for the renewal and salvation of this country, but his country does not hear him because the media are not interested...
...Californian had provided Sunstein with a running commentary on his own performance throughout the match. But he was not nearly as talkative as his teammates. As the Crimson reached the far-away court, the Californians were cheering wildly on every point...
...season as far-away fans did have its high points though...
...National Liberation Front victory, and familiar with offensives by what newspapers call "their" soldiers or these soldiers' American backers, the peasants who ran last week's losing southward race against the advancing battle field lacked the objective detachment and human-interest perspectives that American papers offered their far-away readers. Maybe the discrepancy should have attracted a commentator or two, in a week when even tired reporters tried to make their stories transcend the day-to-day suffering they had detailed or ignored for years...