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...will "bring endless disaster to India," Peking says: "Particularly serious is the prospect that if U.S. imperialism is allowed to become involved, the present conflict will grow into a war in which Asians are made to fight Asians, entirely contrary to the fundamental interests of the Indian people." Implicit in those words are Red Chinese memories of the prolonged Korean war. which ended in a gory stalemate...
With the humanist, the situation is quite different. In dealing with nebulous, often unformulated problems, he hopes to suggest. The humanist often assumes that the content of a message is implicit in what it seems to say; one function of criticism, for example, is to exorcise, to make explicit, the contents of fiction and poetry. This difference takes effect on the undergraduate scientist and humanist; the scientist wishes the humanist would come out and say what he means, when perhaps what he means cannot be articulated in so many words; the humanist looks without success for something behind what...
...doorbells for Prof. Hughes (and) Rep. William Fitts Ryan...." I do not dispute Mr. Roberts' assertion that this transformation is a sign that maturity has come to a particular segment of student politics: namely that composed of the militants of the "peace movement." What I do dispute is his implicit identification of this segment with student politics as a whole...
...apologize to Mr. Von Salzen for not making these points clear in my piece; but, as is unfortunately clear here, they would have swelled it to an unconscionable length, and were, as I thought, implicit...
...questions in untraveled places, Alastair Reid, the individual who so characterizes himself, is a poet and a European correspondent for the New Yorker. That this laconic and bushy-browed Scotsman has a lively curiosity is evident from first meeting; that he has been quick to follow its lead is implicit in his present affiliation with Spanish affairs...