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...with its September issue, the magazine was again on top of a literary cause célèbre. It printed the first English translation of the open letter written to Tito in July by Mihajlo Mihajlov. The letter politely explained why the Yugoslav writer felt that he must persist in his intention to found an "opposition newspaper." Four weeks after writing it, he was arrested (TIME...
...that answer. We are fighting a war of determination. It may last a long time." Addressing Hanoi, he declared: "Victory for your armies is impossible. You cannot drive us from South Viet Nam by force. Do not mistake our firm stand for false optimism; as long as you persist in aggression, we are going to resist...
...conflict is inevitable and it will persist. But it is a complicated struggle. The rising rents mean displacement for some Cambridge residents, but larger incomes for others. And if the high-bidding Harvard real estate agents insure that the University will expand its perimeter, they also assure many Cambridge residents of receiving twice or three times the ordinary value of their land. Perhaps because of these compensations, the real estate issue has been a largely silent...
James T. Farrell is the most heroic figure in modern American letters. No one else, in the face of such resolute popular and critical discouragement for so many years, would persist with unsullied vocation so doggedly and prolifically in the lonely and exacting art of fiction. His unrequited passion for literature must be the most gallantly unfortunate affair since an emperor penguin fell in love with Admiral Byrd (and followed him around, hinting with gifts of egg-shaped stones that he would like to join the Navy...
...destruction of sacred cows has some historic precedent in this country. I am sure you will agree that the contributions made by Stiffens, Sinclair, and LaFollette persist though the public outcry and rage may have subsided. Robert C. Buxbaum...