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...other intellectuals sent a letter to the Budapest meeting protesting the defendants' fate and that of "several thousand political prisoners" confined to prisons and concentration camps under "harsh infringements of legality." "We appeal to the participants in the consultative congress," said the letter, "to fully consider the peril caused by the trampling on the rights of man in our country." All twelve signed their names, even though, as the letter noted, those who have objected so far "have lost their jobs, been called in by the KGB and finally been sent to psychiatric wards...
...Galbraith, and he is somewhat intrigued with the idea of running for the governorship of Massachusetts. But his sharp wit, irrepressible candor and donnish mien would be fatal handicaps at the polls. As it is, there are many who think that he has already spread himself too thin. "The peril with becoming a Voice in the Land," says Columbia Economist Louis Hacker, a friendly critic, "is that you are expected to be knowledgeable in every subject. Galbraith has no right to be pontifical on things like Viet...
Since that shining moment of man's ascendancy over nature, the atom's peril has more often overshadowed its promise. The U.S. alone has enough nuclear megadestruction stored in warheads to equal the explosive power of ten tons of TNT for every person on earth. Efforts to harness the atom's illimitable energy for peaceful uses have been as humble as its squash-court birth. Despite glowingly optimistic predictions, the atom has remained little more than an experimental tool in medicine, mining and a myriad of other fields. Only now is nuclear energy beginning to prove...
During a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House, he dismissed as absurd the charge that the Administration is reviving fears of the "yellow peril" by naming Peking as the real threat to U.S. interests. "We fought side by side with Asians at Bataan and Corregidor, in Korea and now in Viet Nam," said the President. "We have utterly repudiated the racist nonsense of an earlier era. Indeed, we have made a commitment in Asia because we do believe that no men, whatever the pigmentation of their skins, should ever be delivered over to totalitarianism, that freedom...
What submerges from Dylan's thought poems is a surrealistic Yoknapatawpha Country, a rich wasteland crossed by Highway 61 and the holy slow train. Enter at your peril. There are no lumberjacks to give you facts when Dylan, riding on a radiant electronic bass, attacks your imagination. You pay your money to watch the geek, but the viscous torrent of picture words doubles you on yourself. You think very hard about nothing, narcissim at 33 and 1/3, until you like Mr. Jones "know something's happening but you don't know what...