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...Viet Nam comes as something of a surprise to his readers. He has a tendency to write slightly off the news-analyzing one part of the world when the fire is burning in another. Viet Nam he hits headon. In answer to the neo-isolationism of a Walter Lippman, who argues that the U.S. is over-extended abroad, Sulzberger denies that the U.S. sphere of interest is geographically limited. "Greece and Iran," he wrote, "where U.S. determination forced Communist retreats in Stalin's day, were far from American shores-as were Korea, Lebanon, Laos and Viet...
...enclave strategy" proposed by formes General James M. Gavin in this month's issue of Harper's seems the most realistic solution to that problem. Walter Lippman, who has favored this strategy for many months, calls it: "the best of a bad business, not glorious, but the least costly way of repairing the grievous mistakes of the past...
...believe and meant to suggest, that it is from this "framework," not from a direct empathy with specific human problems, that your passions chiefly flow. I did not intend to express disapproval of your approach, which is after all the approach of men as dissimilar and intelligent as Walter Lippman and Vladimir Lenin...
This is not to say that the Senator has abandoned those stylistic pecularities which have drawn so much criticism. He is still the master of the blinding contradiction; his administration, as Walter Lippman tells us bi-weekly, will try to reduce the size of the Federal government while somehow reducing crime throughout the nation and building up defenses to thwart communism abroad. He still expounds the paradoxical platitude--at once grandiose and simplistic; to stop crime the President, "in making appointments to the federal judiciary, must consider the need to redress constitutional interpretation in favor of the public (underlining...
...Harvard alumni received medals. Others were Detlev W. Bronk, S.D. '53; Aaron Copland, D. Mus. '60; Walt Disney '28 (hon.), M.A. (hon.) '38; T. S. Eliot '10; Walter Lippman '10; Ralph McGill, LL. D. '60; Reinhold Niebuhr, S.T.D. '44; Carl Sandburg, Litt. D. '40; Dr. Helen B. Taussig S.D. '59; and Dr. Paul Dudley White...