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...just in time for the revisionist historians. When Rip left the U.S. the faint afterglow of Kennedy magic was still warm to the touch. Then they called it charisma. Now they call it Sha-melot. Such books as Henry Fairlie's The Kennedy Years and David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest sound the knell for the '60s and its leaders. The returnee has missed the spate of Concerned Books: Soul On Ice, Deschooling Society, The Whole Earth Catalog-when Rip left, earth was only dirt-plus almost every float in Norman Mailer...
...turn silent (as in the '50s), not in a spirit of tranquillity but with a sense of impotence and self-interest. The rage of the antiwar demonstrators has dissipated without a true sense of initiative or accomplishment. The once powerful liberals, pursued by such unforgiving histories as David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest, still try to understand their guilt and re-invent their philosophy...
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...David Halberstam '55, the former Managing Editor, has pointed out the weaknesses of the Kennedy approach to foreign policy. The "best and the brightest," the Harvard professors and the liberal intellectuals who made up Kennedy's Kitchen Cabinet, often lacked practical experience and understanding of Realpolitik. But the bad fruit of the Kennedy era did not become manifest until long after Camelot had passed away, and The Crimson of the 1960-63 period ran a love affair with the White House...
...very traditional female role on the paper. I was not much of an activist and I never did anything very much to change the status quo, but once his persuasive southern charms (laughter) had talked me into getting up here because I should say that unlike Dave Halberstam who confided to me that he makes about a third of his living by giving speeches, (laughter) that was before his book sold 100,000 copies, but this is the first speech I've made since the night of my high school graduation (laughter). So I ask your indulgence. Anyway once...