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There seems little chance that the debate will become more muted, even as the American involvement in Viet Nam deepens. Meanwhile, the President's advisers are prevailing on him to stump the nation or at least take to TV in order to remind Americans of the reasons for the war and to rally support for it. So far he has made no decision. It is clear, however, that whatever arguments Johnson offers will have to be both eloquent and candid if he hopes to sway any appreciable number of dissenters to his side. It is even clearer that...
...readers to endorse the Nobel committee's judgment. Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth. Agnon does not solve the dilemma any more than life does. He ends by planting doubts...
...final picture of the series, a Hitler figure is viewed in the act of self-castration. At least, some critics have him as Hitler. Lasansky declines to identify it. His concern, he says, is not primarily with indicting German Nazis; his larger intent is to remind the younger generation that the human mind and will have a vast and terrifying capacity for brutality. "It could happen again," he believes. "And I don't think the imagination can even conceive of what it would be like...
...there did not beat people but they used many other means, some more subtle than others. Rations were reduced and this forced the weakest to surrender. Joseph told me that prostitutes were brought into camp to speak words of love and to dangle their legs before the detainees to remind them of some of the things they were missing. They were not allowed to taste these joys, though, merely to recall them, before the ladies were taken...
...mocked, "I was walking the streets of Harlem on picket lines." Noting that Meredith describes himself as an "independent Democrat," Powell observed that "anybody who is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket has got to be a little tetched in the head." No one was nasty enough to remind Powell that in 1956 he bolted his party to support Dwight Eisenhower...