Word: nevertheless
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...House side, Wisconsin Republicans Glenn Davis and Vernon Thomson predicted that Westmoreland would be fired by Easter. The general, after four grueling years in Viet Nam, is due for relief, and Johnson does not rule out his return. Nevertheless, the President insisted: "I have no intention of seeing him leave. I have no plan for him to leave...
...Olympic team. A factor that no doubt will figure in his campaign emerged last week when the International Olympic Committee agreed to reinstate South Africa in the 1968 Olympics, after having banned it from Tokyo in 1964. The South Africans now promise to field a completely integrated team. Nevertheless, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Algeria, Uganda, Mali and Ghana immediately announced their withdrawal from the Games...
...Habit of Losing. By the standards of metropolitan journalism, Loeb's Union Leader (circ. 55,000) is not very big. Nevertheless, it is New Hampshire's largest and only statewide daily. As such, it is read and feared by every politician courting the New Hampshire vote. The candidates supported by Loeb -the late Robert Taft, Barry Goldwater, Brigadier General Harrison Thyng-have a habit of losing. Richard Nixon doubtless has mixed feelings about Loeb's support in the current presidential primary. But better to be liked than hated by Loeb. In the 1964 primary, he referred...
Norman Mailer is a novelist of essentially the same ail-American genre, but Mailer has developed a narcissistic devotion to his own quirks of mind; Kerouac a far less talented man, nevertheless compels more respect for his dogged and humble concern to tell a plain tale and to explain himself, rather than demonstrate the wickedness or folly of others. Nor is Kerouac capable of the brutal vulgarity of a writer such as James Jones, whose books strike anyone of any sensitivity as weary, stale, flat-and profitable...
...Holy Nothingness" as the source of all being. This Holy Nothingness is totally beyond human comprehension or categorization, and he compares its relationship with man to that of an ocean and its waves: "Each wave has its moments in which it is discernible and distinguishable as a separate entity. Nevertheless, no wave is really separate from the ocean, which is its substantial ground...