Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although one cannot yet be sure of Galbraith's role as a critic, he seems to have proved himself as a prophet: "A picture on the cover of TIME magazine, as any perceptive recipient of the honor must know, is taken by a large number of people to mean that the individual is henceforth much more in need of expert criticism than applause." (From his book The Liberal Hour...
...obvious doubts, neither of the sharpest of the senatorial critics of the Johnson Administration's handling of the incident-Wayne Morse and William Fulbright-questions that some sort of an engagement did take place on Aug. 4. Others are not so sure. Yet even if it is conceded that the attack did happen, many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed...
...have enough manpower to move out in pursuit of Communist battalions. They are thus unable to hit at their besiegers, or even put out sufficient reconnaissance patrols to determine the size and deployment of the Communist armies arrayed around them. Nor can the U.S. and the South Vietnamese be sure how many enemy forces, the remnants of the original wave of attackers, remain hidden inside the rings hastily thrown around the cities and towns. In Saigon, the problem is particularly acute, since the size and effectiveness of this fifth column might well determine the outcome of any major Communist thrust...
...nearly four weeks ago, and many ARVN soldiers have not yet returned to their units. The government's hope is that many of the missing offered their services to the nearest headquarters when the crisis began and are still serving in these areas. But no one knows for sure...
Hysterical Herons. "The trouble with most of today's conductors," says Swarowsky, "is that they are not sure of style. A Dürer is not a Rembrandt; a Bruckner symphony is not a Wagner opera. Each style needs its own realization." To sharpen his students' sense of style, Swarowsky suppresses their personalities, dismisses their interpretive urges as mere dilettantism. He leads them through rigorous analyses of scores. "You learn," recalls Mehta, "what the composer is doing and why, and how he entered the composition-through the back door, as it were. We never heard in Swarowsky...