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...before beginning his opening speech in the Security Council debate. The new ambassador looked around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest to Kissinger. The Secretary of State, embarrassed about Scranton's friendliness, described the ambassador's impromptu invitation as "an unfortunate formulation...
With that remark having appeased his party's outraged right wing, which opposed the talks with Nkomo, Smith then went on to say he would consider renouncing his unilateral 1965 declaration of independence and return Rhodesia to British colonial status. With heavy sarcasm, he suggested that the British should stop maneuvering against Smith and "come through the front door and accept the responsibility they claim they have...
Willie opened the day-long session with an apology for the remarks of two Harvard professors who called black colleges in the United States a "disaster area." Willie called the remark "both insensitive and insulting," and urged the black scholars attending the conference "to set the record straight and tell us how they have done so much with so little...
Miss Keaton does not so much rise above all this as defy it. Looking a little like the White Rock girl with a degree from Sarah Lawrence, Keaton coaxes and brasses her way through her role. At one point, she must remark of the floozy upstairs, who sports low necklines and is bedeviled by brown supermarket bags that disintegrate from below, "Oh, her cantaloupes are always falling out." Keaton pays so little mind to the awkwardness of the line, to its prewashed vulgarity, that she makes it charming. Talent like that goes beyond skill; it is a kind of bonkers...
...metaphysics as in religion, he is fundamentally an agnostic. Though he decries the lack of morality in Nazi Germany, Speer can offer no alternative. He writes in 1952, "Much too late I am beginning to grasp that there is only one valid kind of loyalty: toward morality," but the remark has an empty ring because Speer has no moral system, still less an allegiance to one. If he ever tried to confront the problems of moral philosophy or religious faith, it is not apparent in these diaries. He contents himself with lip service to the trite idea of the basic...