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...GREAT and utterly self-hypnotic was the hysteria that tracing the blame for it could only have occurred in retrospect. Until the extension of the Vietnamese conflict in the late '60's, there did not exist a single, prolonged and potentially divisive use of American overseas military power that might have spurred a serious controversy within the Center about the ramifications of American policy. The early period was one in which the fundamental goals of that policy, as opposed to the tactical wisdom of this or that particular intervention, went largely unquestioned...
Yours has been a college generation full of difficulty, doubt and confusion. Yet I would be lacking a fundamental faith in the wonder-working of this University if I were not convinced you will find, in retrospect, your time in college to have been extraordinarily maturing and rewarding. Difficulty brings self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs inner strength and self-renewal. We see now in part only through the darkened glass. It will be your task to help make that vision clearer for yourself and for those near and dear to you through courage...
...legacy of suppression that began with the Soviet bombardment of Kronstadt led directly to the Stalinist terror and to the faceless, cynical technocracy that the Soviet Union is today. That alone, in retrospect, would make the attack on the fortress absurd. But the burning irony of Kronstadt is that, before the siege began, at a time when it might have been stopped or called off, the real perpetrators were nowhere to be found...
Yours has been a college generation full of difficulty, double and confusion. Yet I would be lacking a fundamental faith in the wonder-working of this University if I were not convinced you will find, in retrospect, your time in college to have been extraordinarily maturing and rewarding. Difficulty brings self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs self-knowledge. Out of trouble springs inner strength and self-renewal. We see now in part only through the darkened glass. It will be your task to help make that vision clearer for yourself and for those near and dear to you through courage...
Once, in a Norman Rockwell America, it was flown on Flag Day with what in retrospect seems a certain innocence, aspiration and uncomplicated pride. Too often now, the flag represents not one Nation, indivisible, but a code of the country's fractured ideologies. On this Flag Day, the nation seemed decorated by some astonishingly commercial Barbara Frietchie Associates...