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...were beyond question, but his reading of Marx did not permit him to forgive "deplorable tactics." For one of Marx's central insights is that in adopting a tactic one is knowingly or not, committing one's self to a particular view of history. And if your view is partial, or if what you counted on betrays you, you are still responsible for the outcome. It is this drama of historical responsibility that Merleau-Ponty lays bare for us in Koestler's novel, in the trial of Bukharin, and in the exile and assassination of Trotsky. Such responsibility...
...demonstrations. There was no procedure for charging, much less disciplining, these who called the police last Spring; and, there is no procedure for disciplining the Corporation for continuing its racist employment practices. The Committee on Rights and Responsibilities is perpetuating these injustices. Its racist, unconstitutional, and very partial character is not a coincidence but an unwitting reflection of the interests of the Administration...
...Historian Crane Brinton, in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, predicted by 1970-decidedly prematurely -the start of "plain, unblushing repression of much that our Freudian age regards as irrepressible. Indeed a partial return to public and private Victorian decencies...
...President Johnson announces that he will not seek reelection, orders partial bombing halt in Viet...
...improved hospital care, in partial conquest of such killers as cancer and heart disease, will make life better for the old and will undoubtedly add to population pressures...