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...spite of the lessons learned on the playing fields of Whittier, President Nixon must now settle for considerably less than a win in Southeast Asia. Whatever "winding down the war" in Indochina eventually comes to mean, Nixon cannot have it look like an outright American defeat. Neither could any other postwar President, says Ellsberg in "The Quagmire Myth and Stalemate Machine," the principal paper in this cool, rigorously logical collection of essays, dramatic eyewitness reports and congressional testimony. Ever since the fall of Dien Bien Phu, says Ellsberg, the first law of political survival has been "Do not lose...
...disagreeing with his specific positions. Thus, some of his most sympathetic colleagues have complained of oversimplifications in Kung's 118-page treatment of the priesthood-for example, his insistence that the New Testament view of ministry means that the Eucharist can be celebrated by any believer-and of outright historical inaccuracies in his book on infallibility. Writing in a recent issue of America magazine, New Testament Scholar Raymond E. Brown also argues that Kung's thinking suffers from a "one-sided contact with the liberal and intellectual element of the church." So far, in fact, U.S. reviews...
...first half of Monday's concert--thick, sensuous topping (quite enjoyable in the proper context) amorphously coating the crisp organic forms of Haydn and Beethoven. I hasten, however, to make it perfectly clear that the group's well-intended savoring of each morsel never reached the point of outright bad taste...
...dedicated Democrat who learned his labor-union politics in Buffalo, Perlik managed a backhanded mandate for endorsement at last month's annual Guild convention in San Juan. Beaten in his effort to get the convention to endorse McGovern outright, he later won permission for the union's 15-member international executive board to "consider endorsing a candidate for the presidency following the national conventions...
...mother-may-I". Henry James's American girls are seduced not by men, but by surfaces, by "their failure to look deep enough into things." And the men perceiving full well the awful depths, sense a mysterious force in women that threatens to undercut their own power. Their outright acts of betrayal and cruelty are breathless attempts to remain one step ahead of destruction...