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Despite the Disorders. If any country ever seemed too irrational to possess weapons of mass destruction, it is Mao Tse-tung's China. In the nine months since the aging (73) Mao launched his xenophobic Cultural Revolution, China has lurched dangerously close to anarchy and hysteria. Government control has broken down in vast areas. Even Mao's own forces of Red Guards, workers and army troops have started fighting among themselves. The wall posters in Peking tell of daily bloody battles, riots and vandalism all across the stricken land. Red China's blast showed that, despite...
...touch other human beings. I want to be able to share with others the awe of a redwood tree and its inviolability in comparison to a high way; I want to do so without being considered a 'nut.' I want to be free from the compulsion to possess things and people, and to know that others are similarly free. I want to be able to love life enough to value it over all else, and to live in a society that shares that value...
...poems call the Puritan spirit of New England to sharp account and make his ancestral portraits step from their frames and answer to Lowell. Thus his dialogue becomes an argument about his own nature, in terms of the Calvinist obsessions with sin, damnation, God and Satan. Lowell does not possess his ancestors; they possess...
...fear that many of those about to be drafted are unlikely to possess sufficient political sophistication even to question the rhetoric of an emotional patriotism provided as the official justification for fighting in Vietnam. Those who select "alternative service" would merely be contriving an all too convenient solution for their own doubts without coming to terms with the real issues of conscription and the war. Delivered from their "dilemma," it seems likely that these few would be so comfortable performing "alternative service" that they would not "feel like" protesting or demonstrating further. Such persons would simply be exploiting the sacrifices...
...next 14 years, even when at times he did not possess an absolute majority, he ruled with an iron patriarchal hand, guided by a deep Christian faith, a humanist's conviction in the Tightness of democratic ways and a shrewd political gift for manipulating men. He thought out his strategies well in advance, reducing alternatives to their simplest dimensions, and he dealt with problems according to his maxim that "a thick skin is a gift from God." When the German public grumbled about the slowness of Allied decontrol, he replied: "Who do you think...