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What Perks. The Ear does run, with unflagging good humor and no apparent qualm, numerous corrections. Says Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee: "It's highly unprofessional and highly readable...
...Prize for a cartoon in 1947 - can disguise the fact that the man had lost his inspired, raffish touch; most of his late work was simply dull. All of which poses a question: How can a person leave this or any similar book half unread without feeling the slightest qualm? With a bow to Professor Butts, one answer might be the cartoon below...
...military reasons, but they must be returned as soon as local combat ends. They may not be used to protect combatants, whether by placing them inside military objectives (a Viet Cong tactic) or by forcing them to precede troops across minefields, a practice that Calley admitted to without a qualm...
There is a qualm that may trouble those who successfully follow Suttler's or Tatum's advice: if the draft misses one person. it finds another to do its dirty work. The quick reply is that if you don't resist, you will be in uniform, killing and being killed; and there is no convincing evidence why that is any better than someone else doing...
...agent of amelioration. A Tallulah resident most of his life, he has been the town's most active and noisy agitator for racial justice. His attitudes have hardly altered in office. His mannerisms grate on white nerves. He hails white people by their first names, criticizes without a qualm Tallulah's white civic leadership and unabashedly seeks personal publicity...