Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Glancing at the snappy format of the May Second Movement's new publication, The Free Student, one had the hope that at last the American student left had transcended its usually sloppy militancy and produced a journal in which issues of United States foreign and domestic policy could receive intelligent and much needed criticism. But, alas...
...like a muscle-bound giant being besieged by gnats," wrote the Milwaukee Journal. "Where do we go from here? A negotiated peace is vital." The Christian Science Monitor managed to find some comfort in the Viet Cong raids and called U.S. retaliation "an escalation of diplomacy rather than an escalation of the war itself. It cannot be ruled out that these raids, demonstrating American firmness, may well speed the day when a diplomatic settlement of the Vietnamese civil strife will occur...
...fight a war when you wait for the enemy to sock you first before returning a light jab," said the Chicago Tribune. "As our global strategy is the same, the prospect for the survival of freedom doesn't look too encouraging, even for the U.S." In Atlanta, the Journal also faulted the U.S. for "permitting the initiative to rest with the Communists...
...Born of strong-willed and well-to-do parents-her mother, who served in the U.S. Legation in Switzerland, was the first woman to be admitted to the U.S. Foreign Service-Charlotte grew up in Columbus, Ohio, talked her way into summer assignments for the Citizen (now the Citizen-Journal) while still at Vassar. "She had the disposition of a thoroughbred-overtrained, overbred and tense," recalls a colleague still on the paper. "She had a pride in being able to cope. She was against copelessness...
Hungary has produced perhaps the most interesting sign of change. Last month, in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review), Red Theoretician Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine, argued that "we do not get very far with the old-type atheism and anticlerical ism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and that Communism should cooperate with "well-intentioned religious people" in achieving common social goals...