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...attempt to brag about your "special gift to homogenize a diverse society" in your "American Notes" [Oct. 26] at the moment when your neighbor is burying a murdered leader is the height of cruelty and conceit. Undoubtedly there were Canadians who expressed feelings other than anguish when American leaders were murdered-but for those of us who consider you a friend, your words are senseless. You owe us a retraction...
...height of the Cambodian crisis-the morning of the march on Washington protesting it-President Nixon made a surprise 5 a. m. appearance at the Lincoln Memorial to chat with demonstrators who were encamped there. The most detailed report of this appearance was written by Parker Donham of the Boston Globe, who interviewed moderate students who had talked with the President. They described Nixon as being incoherent (indeed unable to put a sentence together), sickly looking and somewhat frightening. One of those interviewed described the President as "a robot out of control." In any case, he stammered, broke off into...
...think it no mere coincidence that the school prayer controversy erupted at the height of the civil rights movement. Viewed as a kind of metaphysical drama, the Supreme Court rulings against prayer in public schools can be seen as a retaliatory strike by government against the new civil pretensions of religion in the civil rights movement. The media convinced us that the 1964 school desegregation decision was the Court's most intimate and dynamic relationship to the Kingled movement, failing to see any connection between that movement and the school prayer decisions. The media had so conditioned me to think...
...height of a largely unheralded musical career, the Velvet Underground produced their second album, White Light/White Heat -an album which so powerfully realizes the group's violently alienated vision that listening to it is often unbearable. In 1968, rock's manifest destiny was apparently to grow progressively more violent, perverted, and electronic. White Light/White Heat was about as far as rock got in that direction...
...frenzied height of China's Cultural Revolution, Peking virtually boarded up many of its foreign embassies and brought home every Chinese ambassador but the one in Egypt. Over the past 17 months, 30 heads of delegations have returned to their duties, suggesting that China's leaders were ready to resume more normal dealings with the world community. An even more tangible sign was a series of quiet negotiations that opened in several capitals. Their aim: to secure diplomatic recognition from some of the 80-plus nations that still do not acknowledge the existence of Chairman Mao Tse-tung...