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...surface, Kissinger believed that America's withdrawal could best be pursued through negotiation. Part of this belief doubtless sprang from what one colleague later called a "David Susskind syndrome," the notion that on first meeting one's opponent face to face the conflict could rapidly be solved; but Kissinger's optimism was borne of a deeper attitude that the NLF and the North Vietnamese, dedicated revolutionaries though they were, would one day be responsive to the overwhelming power of the American military, that they could be threatened and-if necessary-beaten into submission...
...abolition of child labor, these movements have great vitality. These modes of reform are not adequately treated. But you think how long it would have taken for the civil rights movement to spring from the heart of the bureaucracy, or for that matter from the two parties. It sprang from a citizens' movement. Citizens' movements are little understood and little appreciated...
Some 500 years ago the great Japanese warrior-poet Ota Dōkan built a castle on the marshy fringes of what is today Tokyo Bay. A bustling little town sprang up, and Ota wrote...
...growth of radicalism on the left had fascinated many right-wing libertarians. Like conservatism, radicalism grew out of disillusionment with liberal policies-though the disillusionment sprang from a different perspective...
...minute, he sat in suspended motion as much of the world about him caved in or exploded outward. "One house suddenly came apart like a dollhouse," he recalls. "The roof flew up, the walls spread out, and I could see two elderly persons, colored folks, crouched inside. Then everything sprang right back on top of them and they disappeared...