Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have guessed that his politics have been consistently liberal, sometimes even "radical"? Or that his support and friendship have gone above all to people and to causes associated with minority rights and social justice? Or, for that matter, that he was one of the original architects of General Education...
...intent to confirm the guilt or establish the innocence of Hiss," writes San Francisco psychoanalysist Meyer Zeligs in the preface to his "analysis" of the Hiss-Chambers case. The disavowal is necessary. Friendship and Fratricide only further complicates the already hopelessly complicated questions surrounding Alger Hiss's alleged crime. But Zeligs is less than consistent in his avowed aims: he denies at the outset any desire to prove Hiss's innocence, because he is treading on unsure ground; later the distinction between pschoanalysis and detective-work is ignored and finally abandoned when Zeligs finds certain propositions incompatible with the possibility...
...unswerving premises of Friendship and Fratricide, for all the author's talk of "the spirit of free inquiry," is that Hiss was innocent. By assuming rather than substantiating this, Zeligs places his analysis within an unconvincing and circular logical structure, which in turn calls otherwise well-argued propositions into question. The book fails as a whole because its often compelling psychoanalysis is so clearly founded on clumsily linked, improperly evaluated facts...
...seeming ambivalence may be related to his close friendship with New York's Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy, who opposes the bombings and is expected to deliver a major speech this week urging that they be halted. Yet both McNamara and Kennedy greatly respect the views of retired General Maxwell Taylor, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and onetime Ambassador to Saigon, who has no doubts whatsoever about the efficacy of the bombing...
...Julius Nyerere last week. "We are only getting rid of those people who are here illegally." The same menacing tone was in the voice of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, who warned that "non-Kenyans, however rich, who ridicule the laws of the country, practice cat-and-mouse friendship and insult Africans will be ordered to pack up and go home." Who were these social undesirables about to be tossed out of paradise...