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...device that knits the evening together is that dramatic vice, a narrator, whose luckless duty is to tell the playgoer why, for the moment at least, there is no play going on. When the actors take over, War and Peace springs to life-life with all its joyous, grievous and profound trivia, its indestructible reality. Children are born, men and women marry or do not marry, father fights with son and son with father, the old die. Peace is love, war is evil. In war, the young die, husband is torn from wife, the round of daily life is violated...
Something Better. To Walter Lippmann, from the start it was "a grievous mistake to have involved ourselves so much in a part of the world where it is impossible for a non-Asian country to win a war against Asians." Nor, in Lippmann's view, did proponents of a "clean war" in Viet Nam-one fought in the skies rather than on the ground-have any case: "The fact is, that if we make the Vietnamese struggle 'our war,' we shall have to fight on the ground to hold South Viet Nam. There is no use fooling...
There is nothing quite like a fullblown civil rights debate to bring into focus the grievous problems of leadership in the Senate-particularly when a Democratic majority is in command. As Minority Leader Everett Dirksen mellifluously puts it, there are "100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities they are! What an amazing thing it is somehow to harmonize them. What...
...failure of the Committee to consider the impact of the HSA on other undergraduate organizations is the most grievous ommission of the report, however. The consolidation of business talent in the student body at the HSA, together with advertising solicited by HSA agencies, has had a severe and damaging effect on practically every volunteer organization in the College that conducts any business operation. Faced with extremely tight budgets, only a few have been able to offer their business staffs compensations in any way comparable to HSA commissions and salaries...
...Harvard Student Agencies took steps yesterday to correct a "grievous error" which saw one of its units charge the University with failing to provide students with an adequate diet...