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...with full power and passion. The brave, distinguished Harvard scholars, George Wald, Erik Erikson, and Robert Coles are three such bold exceptions in our time. None, I think, will wish to be identified with all of my own views. There is a certain protocol at Harvard which commands a mild degree of kindness and discretion to one's fellow-members of the Common Room. It is, indeed, this very kindness which at length proves most alarming...
...effort to make the diplomatic atmosphere as clear as possible, the Soviets kept their rhetoric purposely mild. Soviet publications made no effort to inflame domestic opinion against either Israel or the U.S. They did not portray the Israelis as having started the new war (the Arabs do) and did not criticize the U.S. airlift. Brezhnev declared that the fighting ought to be stopped quickly, that the U.S.S.R. would try to help bring that about, and that his nation recognizes Israel's right of existence as an independent state...
Such militancy over Israel comes from a 61 -year-old, mild-mannered Presbyterian who represents the state of Washington, where Jews constitute a mere .44% of the population. On the national scene, the Jewish vote of course is more important, and Jackson has presidential aspirations. There would be more than a whiff of opportunism to his posture if it were not perfectly consistent with the views he has expressed in his 21 years in the Senate. He is an unrepentant cold warrior who still refers to "Reds" and "Commies" in his private conversation. Fearing that the Soviet Union means...
...Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, 62, was inefficient, authoritarian and beset with economic problems. There was wide discontent because of the rising cost of rice and Thanom's police-state methods. The revolt that abruptly brought down his regime started when university students in Bangkok issued a list of mild demands that seemed to have goals more appropriate to Disraeli than Mao: a new constitution (the old one had been arbitrarily scrapped by the military government in 1971) and free elections. To the government, however, the demands amounted to near sedition. Twelve student demonstrators and professors were arrested and charged...
...political protest was a minor gesture when compared to the achievements of his art, but it shows something of the soul which inspired his public performance. While he was in occupied France his courageous acts saved some lives, and his refusal to play even caused the Nazi leadership some mild consternation. His boycott of Spain brought little frustration to Franco. But his passions were so strong that he simply could not play when confronted with innocent blood spilled, with the cries of his subjugated countrymen...