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...release had been a long, peculiar and occasionally bungled process. It began on Aug. 30, when longtime Antiwar Activist Cora Weiss received a transatlantic call from a member of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks. Almost three weeks later, Hanoi released Gartley, who was shot down, Aug. 17, 1968, Air Force Major Edward Elias, a prisoner since April 20, 1972, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Norris Charles, a captive since Dec. 30, 1971. All three were placed in the custody of Mrs. Weiss and Antiwar Activists David Dellinger, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Princeton International...
This is the most sorry and potentially dangerous outcome of the Nixon years--that they have so baldly devalued political discourse that no one will ever be believed again. But political lying is not peculiar to Nixon and it would not be vanquished through a Nixon defeat it is an historical cancer brought to acute malignancy by the heroic lying of Lyndon Johnson who truly was the politician that Nixon pretends...
...Broadway Howard Johnson's. "Attention, diners," she announced over the loudspeaker one evening. "Your Howard Johnson's waitress of the week, Miss Lily Tomlin, is about to make her appearance on the floor. Let's all give her a big hand!" Tomlin's peculiar brand of humor was not one of the 28 flavors that Howard Johnson's featured -though she got double tips that evening-and the next day she went on to another job. Soon she was entertaining patrons of Manhattan coffeehouses and cabarets-without waiting on tables...
...broadcasting editorials calling McGovern "mad dog" and "an enemy of the South Vietnamese people who has crawled to the bloodthirsty Communists on trembling hands and feet." The attacks were so vitriolic that the U.S. embassy in Saigon brought pressure on the South Vietnamese, and the invective soon stopped. Such peculiar long-distance politicking is another example of the strange symbiosis in which the fates of Americans and Vietnamese have become so intimately locked...
...puts everyone to the test, including the audience. Norma, for example, is one of those static abstracts that-like most neo-Roman architecture-more often command respect than love. That Sutherland, Capobianco and Designer José Verona could infuse it with any passion at all was testimony to the peculiar alchemy of opera when it is defying both the gods and the arts...