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...modern crises. He was in Mexico in 1938, during a persecution of the Catholic Church, and in London during the blitz. He learned to love Viet Nam and opium during the last years of French occupation and spent 24 nervous hours at the doomed camp of Dien Bien Phu. Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista's Havana, just before Castro and his forces came down from the hills. He fetched up in "Papa Doc" Duvalier...
...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...rehabilitated, sometimes rather extravagantly. In the Viet Nam era, liberals like I.F. Stone and Murray Kempton found brilliance in Eisenhower previously undetected by intellectuals; he had resisted the best efforts of his advisers to get him to help the French in Indochina in the weeks before Dien Bien Phu. Despite CIA adventuring around the world, despite the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Iran, despite that sunbathing Marine exercise on the Lebanese beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept the nation out of war. In Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills called...