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...really do not see anything any of us academics could have done that would have made much difference on our Vietnam policy even if we had seen the absurdity of the policy and the course it would take with the foresight we now have in hindsight. Did Roger Hillsman or Jim Thomson or even Arthur Schlesinger's resignation from the government help bring about a change? To be sure, there is an "effectiveness trap," but I think one might say there is a "moral purity" trap too, for the person who remains morally pure accomplishes little except to salve...
...sampling: Max Lerner, Senator William Dodd, Senator Hugh Scott, Roger Hillsman, Representative Emanual Celler...
...sampling: Max Lerner, Senator William Dodd, Senator Hugh Scott, Roger Hillsman, Representative Emanuel Celler...
Natives of the northern mountains of India believe that cholera is a six-handed demon with no feet. Therefore it cannot leave its habitat in India's lowlands until some traveling hillsman comes along, upon whom it can lay its many clutches. Actually the cause of cholera is a microbe shaped like a comma, which enters the body only through the mouth, infests the digestive tract, irritates the bowels to such extent that they extract and eject quarts of fluid from the body. A victim of cholera may die-shriveled and cold from dehydration, uremia and toxemia-within four...
...wisdom of the Lama and his marvelous chela* so that Ommony found himself at the end with a mission on his shoulders-a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor...