Word: misleaders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collections also includes the masterful protections on the GuiMotine, written in collaboration with Arthur Koestler. In a sustained invective, Camus shows compelling skill in his application of The Rebel to another contemporary issue--capital punishment. "Freedom," he said elsewhere, "is the road to perfectibility"--but this must not mislead. Not liberal perfectibility, not optimism, but the stubborn refusal to deprive a man of his only chance at improvement. Under no circumstances can an irrevocable punishment be out, however inhuman the crime. It is, again, precisely because of the wretchedness of life that life must be allowed...
...Lodge's Boston home grounds, during what was billed as a nonpolitical "homecoming," a newsman asked him how he proposed to go about winning the cold war. One way that would help, said Lodge, would be to "follow the maxim of Stone wall Jackson-'Mystify, mislead, and surprise' "-and therefore he wasn't telling...
...Madryn air and naval base at the gulf's head went on a war footing, as U.S. planes rushed emergency equipment to the scene, the skeptics stopped in mid-snicker. Most important of all, President Arturo Frondizi took it seriously, and presumably the navy would not dare to mislead...