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...wrong. I don't think it will hurt the U.S." Maybe not. Yet the crisis of conscience caused by the Calley affair is a graver phenomenon than the horror following the assassination of President Kennedy. Historically, it is far more crucial. Within its limits, the Warren Commission served to mute much of the national agitation that ensued after Kennedy's death. Nixon has ruled out a Warren-style review of the Calley case itself, but there are suggestions inside the Administration and out that a comparably nonpartisan commission explore the whole question of American conduct of the Viet...
Further troop withdrawals may mute criticism in the U.S., but the war has lasted so long, to such demoralizing effect upon Americans, that nothing short of total and final evacuation will ever completely ease their minds. Long habit has ingrained a sort of sullen skepticism about the war, an incredulity that is often oddly mixed with boredom. The night of his television interview last week, Nixon drew only 14% of the networks' prime-time audience; the other viewers chose a movie on NBC or Doris Day and Carol Burnett...
...various members of the Harvard community have laid to rest any speculation that your colleagues have such political punishment in store for you. At the same time, we fell that, just as it is improper to purge a colleague because we disagree with him, it is equally improper to mute fundamental disagreements because of personal friendship and respect...
...white dove of peace chirps briefly, but flies off as a black widow spider of a model plane wings its way with a searching deliberateness across the rear-stage curtain. We see the bomber's victims-to-be, other grey-lady puppets. They sway and huddle together in mute terror. We feel their pain all the more acutely because, like wounded animals, they cannot articulate it. Think of Picasso's Guernica unfolding in slow motion and you have the image of these women dying. The evening ends with a jolly blare of music. The Black Angel...
...famous-H.G. Wells, Walter de la Mare, Jan Masaryk-as well as of obscure middle-European writers fleeing Nazism whom she tried to help. There are the sights and sounds of cities in crisis-Munich, Prague, Vienna, Budapest-as well as the bare cliff tops and mute-hued moors of her native Yorkshire coast...