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...more startling because of his oft-repeated anti-Communist views, declared: "May I speak only as a Christian and humbly ask the President to announce, 'In the name of God, who bade us love our neighbor with our whole heart and soul and mind, for the sake of reconciliation I shall withdraw our forces immediately from Southern Viet Nam.' " Retired Army General James M. Gavin, a former U.S. ambassador to France who early last year recommended consolidating U.S. positions in strategic enclaves in Viet Nam, last week resigned from the Massachusetts Democratic Advisory Council to protest the Administration...
Kirstein has Elizabeth Keckley (Nancy McDaniel), the local White House witch accuse Lincoln of "playing with words." And Old Abe's bastard Negro son-valet interrupts Lincoln's speeches for definitions. Lincoln's two secretaries who will write histories talk about history. Characters repeat words for the sake of Meaning. "Till the day I die," says Abe. "The day you die?" say they. "The very day'" says Abe. O ominous, O morbid...
...cried. "Come out, boys, come on out!" He pulled several out himself, suffering burns on his face and back. Some staggered out on their own. Flames kept others from the exit, and ax-wielding guards and convicts frantically chopped a hole in the wall. "For God's sake, men," sobbed one of the rescued convicts, "come out." Only 16 did-and of those, three died later and five were injured...
...high school teacher and the mother of two teen-age boys, I am increasingly disturbed by the glorification of nonconformity for its own sake. Your cover story makes dropping out of college sound like the thing to do. It makes drug taking sound like great fun. It reads like a recruiting brochure: "Join the hippies and take a trip. Discover new experiences. No work. No responsibilities. Absolutely free. Just hitchhike to the nearest hippie center...
Form, order, institutions, and polity are treated in a section on "Forms and Order." The controlling concept is flexibility of institutional form for the sake of mission in the world. "The institutions of the people of God change and vary as their mission requires in different times and places...