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...spirit, and this is hard for me to do. One of the coaches said to me last week, 'Richie, why don't you should? The kids will think you don't want to play ball.' So I am trying to learn, but meanwhile I hope my teammates don't misunderstand my actions...
...misunderstand--there is nothing really hateful about Sadler. His story has its own appeal. A no-good kid from a broken home who likes to sing joins the Air Force, gets shipped to Japan and wins a black belt for judo, then becomes an Army paratrooper, and finally winds up in Special Forces school where he writes down a song that has been on his mind for years. He copyrights it and sends it to a publisher, where it languishes for months while Sadler plays medic and sings some more in Vietnam. An ABC film crew happens by the camp...
...based protests against U.S. involvement in Viet Nam. Applying a scathingly articulate scorn honed by years of campus oneupmanship, Bundy met the critics on their own ground. "I think many of them have been wrong in earlier moments of stress and danger," he declared. "I think many of them misunderstand the hard realities of this dangerous world...
...Congress, was the fourth possibility. For several days this approach (dubbed by White House aides the "Fire in the Sky" plan) was the one favored by the President and most of his advisers. But the President had misgivings. He feared that such action might cause the Soviet Union to misunderstand the limited nature of the U.S. aims in Viet Nam. "I think more wars are started through conveying wrong intentions than any other way," he said. Time and again, he expressed his doubts. "I don't want a third world war," he said. "I want to ask more questions...
That people will misunderstand Euripides is a phenomenon easily explained. They read translations by classicists like Gilbert Murray who have forced the subtleties of a sophisticated text into duller patterns jerry-built for modern...