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Something Savage. As Crankshaw points out in his foreword, Khrushchev's remembrances constitute "an extraordinary, a unique historical document" that "takes us straight into what has been hitherto a forbidden land of the mind." In Khrushchev's words: "I tell these stories because, unpleasant as they may be, they contribute to the self-purification of our party. I address myself to the generations of the future in hope that they will avoid the mistakes of the past...
Duncan, who was with the Marines in World War II and later covered the Korean War for LIFE, says in his foreword: "I wanted to show what war does to a man . . . I wanted to tell a story of war, as war has always been for men. Only their weapons, the terrain, the causes have changed." Duncan is not sure about just what cause the U.S. is pursuing in Viet Nam, but he considers the conflict to be "the greatest American tragedy since the Civil War." He salutes the individual American fighting men for their courage, generosity, simplicity of language...
...discussing Cushing's mixed bag of enthusiasms. He was an early, lifelong member of the N.A.A.C.P., and the first Catholic prelate to urge his flock to attend Billy Graham's crusades. He could also praise the anti-Communism of the John Birch Society and write a glowing foreword to a book by the director of the Moral Re-Armament movement...
...history school and service as an art consultant with the OSS in Washington during World War II-Curtis has his international admirers. John Russell, art critic of the London Sunday Times, calls him "one of the last of the great hermits-St. Jerome without the lion." In the foreword to the catalogue for a retrospective of Curtis' work, Clare Boothe Luce observes: "To accept, as Philip Curtis does, that human folly and wisdom alike lead only to death, and still not give way to despair, but to the making of lovely and magic pictures, is the triumph...
This may explain the ominous note struck by Charles C. Johnson Jr., administrator of HEW's Environmental Health Service, in a foreword to the bureau's report. "As in so many other aspects of our environmental situation," he wrote, "the findings are not reassuring with regard to the future...