Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young U.S. was capitalism to place the cornerstone of the greatness and the liberty of a nation, using the slavery of the Negroes and the cheap labor of white immigrants; now the poor Italians and Irishmen are independent and some of them rich and opulent men. I am sure the Negroes will be in the near future. In young U.S.S.R. Communism is to put the same cornerstone using the slavery of its own people...
...sure that your review of Graham Greene's The Comedians [Nov. 3] is fair to the picture, but I know that it isn't fair to Haiti. "Greene's fictional Haiti," you say, "seems not very far removed from the real one . . . a Black Power station," etc. Well, this just isn't so. Greene found what he came looking for-Papa Doc, the Tontons Macoute, Black Power, a sick society. The visitor without this preconception will see little or nothing of Haiti's cloak-and-dagger world. He will be overwhelmed instead by the Haitian...
...abandoning his previous deadpan, Sunday-sermon visage for a range of grins and grimaces, smiles and scowls worthy of a Method actor. All the while, an Army Signal Corpsman crouched unseen behind the lectern, reeling out microphone cord when Johnson wandered to the edge of the stage and making sure that he did not trip himself...
Walzer is in better control of his material, even in the sections concerning the Puritans, than he was in his Revolution of the Saints. The style is more lucid, the author more sure of himself and his argument...
...persuaded that at some risk of repetition I should be sure that there is no misunderstanding of my recent remarks on legitimate and non-violent forms of student protest as these concern University involvements with military activities. Two or three weeks ago in Detroit I was asked to comment on prospective efforts to obstruct physically the Willow Run laboratories operated on contract by the University of Michigan and engaged, I am told, on development of highly secret materiel for use in Vietnam. I urged not alone the futility but the adverse public effects of such action; I said that...