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...Cambodian campaign with D-day and Stalingrad, which he did not in fact do, but in referring to Sevareid, Chancellor and Smith as "historians." The real historian is, of course, Nixon, whose understanding of events and ease in explaining them are grapes hung too high for your foxes to grasp...
...suggestions that are more tenuous, and therefore more difficult for the Administration to act on so specifically. The President should "increase his exposure" to representatives of both the black and the academic communities. He should "take initiatives welcoming young people into political and governmental processes." He should try to grasp why the blacks and the young fear repression; justified or not, that fear is a political reality with which he must deal. And the President should "use the moral influence of his office in new ways designed to reduce racial tensions and help develop a climate of racial understanding." None...
These are all characterizes that, unfortunately, the handful of almost distraught guys who created last Saturday's "riotchka" have not learned. That night it was simple to grasp how a fellow like Lenin could get so vehement over political mistakes that he would go home to write his Collected Works. In contrast to the Old Mole. Juche and other radicals who went out of their way to ease the situation, a collective or two persisted in stirring something up from a near-vacuum. Should a similar situation recur, such groups might best be sternly isolated and restrained and confronted with...
...Among the Pleasant: "Ninety-two percent of nines and 98% of 13s know that a human baby comes from its mother's body. Seventy-eight percent of nines feel there must be a reason why a rubbed balloon sticks to the wall." As if anxious to grasp at any sign of U.S. educational maturity, Merrill also noted: "Eighty-nine percent of 17s knew that living dinosaurs have never been seen by men, The Flintstones notwithstanding...
...Bluff), and the violence in Two Mules for Sister Sara is typically visceral. Siegel's talents, however, are weighed down by a heavy script and unwieldy performances by the two stars. Eastwood looks grizzled, stares into the sun and sneers, but anything more demanding seems beyond his grasp. Shirley MacLaine, on the other hand, has considerable range and some charm, both of which have been pretty well blunted by the monotonous consistency of her roles. Things do not bode well for the future either. Next year she will be making a television series for the 1971-72 season, which...