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...they form a cohesive work, filled with perceptive observations. But as a collection, they assume a greater purpose. She gropes for that single flash of insight that would make sense of the rhetoric and the horror stories that filter through Hong Kong to Sunday supplements of American newspapers, that frighten many Americans and bewilder the rest. That flash of insight is absent...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: China: Through A Glass Darkly | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

...been the motivation behind the bombings that has added these latest members to an already, mixed group of political bedfellows. Nixon's bombing was not for military but for psychological purposes, these were terror bombings designed to frighten North Vietnam into capitulation at the negotiating tables. The parallels between President Nixon's actions in the past weeks and the policies of Adolph Hitler are obvious enough Fortunately. Nixon's most recent war comes how-else can we describe the bombing of so many more civilians with such impunity have provoked a more widespread response from Americans than any previous tactic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop Nixon: Now More Than Ever | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

Catton remembers his early days, when the present was pleasant and the future was not to be doubted. "Mercifully," he writes, "we could not know that when it finally came, the future would frighten us more than anything else on earth. We were at halfway house; the quarters were good, the grounds were pleasant, and there was a fine view of the surrounding country. What more could we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...treats Congress as an entity to be ignored or an obstacle to be surmounted, often to the distress of its members even in his own party. Although the Administration during the campaign observed a moratorium in its vendetta with the press, it has now begun a calculated drive to frighten the TV networks into more "balanced" coverage (see TELEVISION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon and Kissinger: Triumph and Trial | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...George McGovern doesn't frighten us. We are old enough to recall all the fears about that "terrible radical" Franklin D. Roosevelt, who proved to be an outstanding President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 30, 1972 | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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