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...memoirs of Presidents. In each, he had inserted a slip of paper, marking a place where he had found something of interest. That is how Nixon had spent his last night as President. He had been seeking solace from the only men who could truly know what he was feeling???his kinsmen in history. I simply could not render personal judgment on Nixon after seeing what he had gone through...
...great many Americans quite understandably feel this way, and there may be political wisdom in paying heed to such feeling???especially at a time when George Wallace can he found soaring on gusts of middle-class discontent. Nixon adopted the old-style Southern strategy in the convention, extending it to put together a coalition of Southern, Border and Midwestern states; indications are that he may use a similar strategy to try to win the general election. This makes sense particularly if one bets that conservative sentiment will run wide and deep between now and Election Day, and by no means...
Athos tries to curb his profanity, but he has no desire at all to curb his feelings. "The student is concerned with feeling???even more than with knowledge and thought," he argues. "Where knowledge is overemphasized, students are merely vessels; then they can open the trap and flush it all into blue books. We have intellectual athletes exercising great muscles in the making of intellectual doilies." This may be "the age of the big cool," says Athos, but the good teacher must "burn...
...best (and worst) of causes do not necessarily make for independent judgment; on either side of the battle for Negro equality, positions are ritualistic rather than individual. Liberals are wedded to the notion that dissent is being silenced everywhere, because it gives them that desperately needed feeling???so rarely available since McCarthy?of being oppressed. Actually, nothing could be less individual than the standard causes to which most liberals are unquestioningly loyal, as one is to a fine old club even if the service...
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