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...offered his good offices in the search for a settlement, and immediately ordered Egyptian diplomats to contact Hanoi. His enthusiasm stems in part, no doubt, from a desire to enhance his own image as an international statesman. But the government press went a bit beyond mere self-serving. "Scorn and skepticism in the Communist camp notwithstanding," noted the Egyptian Gazette, "no head of state would send special envoys to a dozen world capitals, as President Johnson has done, if he had no intention of suiting his actions to his words." Socialist Algeria, hand-tooled, like Hanoi, in bloody rebellion against...
...central impact of the amassed documentation derives from the compelling personality of the central figure, Perry Smith, and his belief in fate. By the time we have come to know Perry and his fated family, for whom the "solution" to life has frequently been violent suicide, we do not scorn this belief. We share Perry's fantasies, his superstitions, his sense of "destiny" (especially for his victims), and learn a real sympathy for the "fate" of the outsider in this society. If this fate is to have any meaning, our sympathy and interest must be distributed widely among the outsiders...
...admit that Harvard is still predominantly a school for the rich and the near-rich.) The Old Snobbery consisted of a set of attitudes still often associated with the rich: political conservatism, which then meant violent and derisive opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, and a scorn for and lack of interest in the problems of members of minority groups and, in general, the less fortunate people in our society...
Today practitioners of the New Snobbery are largely political liberals, and many of them are even radicals. If they look with scorn at President Johnson and his Great Society, they make a point of looking from the left. Beyond this, the typical New Snob shows great interest in the problems of certain minority groups, and he sometimes goes to great lengths and makes great sacrifices to work for the rights of members of such groups...
Professing to scorn the U.S. as a paper tiger, Communist China had long proclaimed Americans incapable of combat under such conditions-while prudently allowing North Viet Nam to fight its "war of liberation." The Americans turned out to be tigers, all right-live ones. With courage and a cool professionalism that surprised friend and foe, U.S. troops stood fast and firm in South Viet Nam. In the waning months of 1965, they helped finally to stem the tide that had run so long with the Reds...