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...their friendship. In the second act the main narrators are the men, and the action is aggressive: once the architect has proposed his project, his envious friend undertakes to derail it. In the public as well as the private combat, the question is the same. Do people really want freedom, or do they simply want to want it? Do they have visions of what they seek, or do they secretly and ashamedly long for someone just to tell them what...
...brilliant egomaniac, he became angry when top producers received all the credit for Warner pictures, and he had a habit of suspending uncooperative stars. Finally, during World War II, Brother Harry had to step in. "You must bear in mind," he wrote, "that everyone is preaching liberty and freedom and the actors are getting to believe it. When the war is over and all the actors and help have come back, you can at that time suspend anyone you want.'' --By Gerald Clarke
...that strategic area of Africa, it has been more a superpower struggle than anything else. This kind of balanced reporting helps dispel the naive notion that nature is the only cause of the tragic suffering of the people in the region. Aziz L. Issarah Ossining, N. Y. Academic Freedom...
...mislabeled A.I.A. as "a rightwing watchdog" and Reed Irvine as a "militant conservative." Both A.I.A. and I are strong defenders of freedom. Your labels mislead rather than accurately describe our position. Reed Irvine, Chairman Accuracy in Academia Washington...
...Kennedy who elevated elite units to matinee-idol status. He built up the U.S. Special Forces, first organized in 1952 during the Korean War, and popularized the green beret many commandos had already informally adopted as their symbol. The Green Berets' role was counterinsurgency: to defend freedom by helping developing (and pro-Western) nations ward off Communist-backed guerrilla movements. The great test was to be Viet Nam. But as the war escalated, counterinsurgency was shoved aside as the U.S. resorted more and more to conventional tactics of massed firepower. Special Forces were increasingly miscast, used as garrison troops defending...