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Stylistically, Sartre and Mills may have altered their approaches too much, but Matthews has adjusted his too little. The four-paragraph clusters of the editorial writer sever many logical threads; and time and again there is a relapse into philosophical speculation and repetitive generalizations about the responsibility of the reporter...
...Reason thus becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is dismissed in a paragraph; the years during which Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and the first of the Romanov dynasty were transforming Muscovite Russia into an imperial power get only six pages...
Moscow's message was obviously intended to have a special evangelical appeal to the new nations of Africa and Asia still struggling for independence or economic success; paragraph after paragraph assured the "poor, struggling peoples" of Russia's support and socialism's sympathy. But along with the promise of friendship went a warning. The nationalism of emergent nations, said Khrushchev, may be "historically justified" as a reaction against "imperialist " oppression," but "national narrow-mindedness does not disappear automatically with the establishment of the socialist system." Translation: The kind of nationalism that opposes the U.N. in Africa...
...reality, Kennedy was as confident and convinced as ever in his career. "West Berlin has now become-as never before -the great testing place of Western courage and will," he said, in a paragraph that should be long remembered. "I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any dangerous spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so. We do not want to fight-but we have fought before. And others in earlier times have made the same dangerous mistake of assuming that the West...
With just one paragraph, your fine cover story on Bill Mauldin dismisses the importance of the greatest American cartoonist since Nast...