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...that Bradesku was entitled to compensation. The Church of God promises to appeal the verdict as far as necessary, and it would seem likely that its constitutional arguments would get a warmer reception in higher courts. But the case has been so unusual so far that it would be foolish for anyone to predict the outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Domestic Relations: Alienated by Radio | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...would be foolish not to recognize that many students--perhaps the majority at Harvard--are fairly content with the system as it operates. A large number not only intend to go on to graduate school, but see the College as a prep school for the University. This sort of student is almost ideally suited to the education Harvard is able to give...

Author: By Jeffrey L. Elman, | Title: A Harvard Education: Does It Do a Student any Good? | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

...deep personalization of the event. And his success as a journalist can be attributed to his talent as a novelist. As he writes of himself: . . . he was a novelist and so in need of studying every last lineament of the fine, the noble, the frantic, and the foolish in others and in himself. Such egotism being two-headed, thrusting itself forward the better to study itself, finds itself therefore at home in a house of mirrors, since it has habits, even the talent to regard itself. Once history inhabits a crazy house, egotism may be the last tool left...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Mailer's Pentagon | 2/28/1968 | See Source »

Undoubtedly, history's judgment of Westmoreland's generalship will depend in large measure on the outcome of the expected Khe Sanh battle. Some critics feel that defending the remote outpost is a foolish gamble that heavily favors the Communists. "Why fight at Khe Sanh at all?" asks French General André Beaufre, who served for five years in Indo-China. "Logistically, the fight favors the North Vietnamese. You have allowed them once again to choose the time and place of battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Biggest Battle | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Sweet November is a little love sto ry that should be fey, funny, touching and bittersweet. Instead it is foolish, lugubrious, sloppy and saccharine. Flashing her little half-smiles in all directions, Sandy is supposed to be a delicious young thing who picks up men and takes them home to share her bed for a month at a time in order to alleviate their hang-ups, or whatever. Anthony Newley is supposed to be an upright box manufacturer who becomes Mr. November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Fox & Sweet November | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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