Word: following
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...must bear in mind the distinction between forceful leadership and stubborn willfulness. And he should not delude himself into thinking that he can do everything himself. America today cannot afford vest-pocket government, no matter who wears the vest. The President is trusted not to follow the fluctuations of the public-opinion polls but to bring his own best judgment to bear on the best ideas his Administration can muster. There are occasions on which a President must take unpopular measures. But his responsibility does not stop there. The President has a duty to decide, but the people have...
Fedin demanded that "vou must, above all, protest against the dirty use of your name by our enemies in the West." One writer told Solzhenitsyn to his face that "Cancer Ward makes you throw up when you read it," and urged Solzhenitsyn to follow the critic's own example: "I always try to write only about happy things." Replied Solzhenitsyn: "The task of the writer is to treat universal and eternal themes: the mysteries of the heart and conscience, the collision between life and death, the triumph over spiritual anguish." He told his accusers with bitter humor that he knew...
...claimed that the students were being incited to riot and demonstrate by non-student communist forces. (This was clearly not the case -- the communists played little part in the events up to this point and were to play an even smaller part in the events that were to follow.) Portraits of Che Guevara had been adopted by the students as a symbol of their movement. The students explained that as they were willing to give their lives to defend the Mexican constitution and preserve freedom of speech and the autonomy of the University, they felt that the portrait...
About the best strategy liberals can follow in this conservative state is to elect a Republican governor. With the conservative party power structure out of power, there might be a chance for the factionalized liberal chronic minority to take over the party in primary elections. Blacks and browns have excercised little voting power in the past, though in a new coalition with the white liberals here is hope that this can be changed by registration drives and progressive local candidates. This group, the Texas Democratic Coalition, primarily McCarthyite, is setting up a parallel party structure across the state. Other liberals...
...album also proves that the group has genuine musical impact even when deprived of its visual flair. Last week in London, the boys prepared to follow up The Who Sell Out with what they hope will be an equally inventive recording. They need to. It is the only way they will convince serious listeners that they can break through more than just their instruments...