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...Cambodia, what assurance could he give that the U.S. is not sliding into another Viet Nam? "We didn't slide into Viet Nam." The Nixon Doctrine provides that the U.S. will aid its military allies but not send in U.S. troops; "Cambodia is the Nixon Doctrine in its purest form...
...classroom door swung open barely two minutes after the start of Adelphi University's graduate course in Principles of Marketing. In walked a gray-uniformed functionary who matter-of-factly began punching the tickets of the equally nonchalant students. The scene was purest Marx brothers, and last week it began playing daily on the Long Island Railroad's Port Jefferson line. The classroom is a converted parlor car, and the students are commuters in one of two new programs to let businessmen take courses as they ride to and from New York City...
...should be totally free, to be deprived of the freedom of movement and association as one is in prison and on parole tends to obscure the distinctions between relative and absolute freedom and also those between relative and absolute captivity. Freedom is seen in its purest, most desirable form, and captivity, to any degree, becomes contemptible. Yet, there are always checks or brakes on this train of thought. Men are not meant to ride it to the desperate state of mind that is its terminus. There are always checks--almost always...
...managed to remain "a loyal and righteous people." Most importantly, Jackson, a man who was to spend half of his life in prison or on the run and die a month before his thirtieth birthday, discovered an inner peace in Harrisburg, tapped, for the first time and in its purest form the last, the strength and gentleness of his soul...
...blues or straight blues-most properly known as Delta or country blues. Along with such other black masters of this unique American art form as B.B. King and Howlin' Wolf, Muddy is riding the crest of a surprisingly long-lived blues revival. Of them all, he remains the purest, the most loyal to where he has been and what it has cost him. Muddy's brand of Delta blues is supposed to follow the traditional twelve-bar structure, but as often as not uses eleven or 13 bars. Despite its metric uncertainty, it is a two-beat, shuffling...