Word: suspect
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...still bizarre) combinations. This is all happening in Louisiana, remember. No matter how hard I remind myself that it's supposed to be un-serious music-hall theater, I can't help warning you that Bayou's book is (even for a Pudding Show, now) well... eccentric. I suspect some of the one-liners wouldn't make sense if they had footnotes...
...people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of their politcal opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that point is the conclusion that an individual must have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs. In this respect, Caldwell's status as a reporter is less relevant than his status as a student who affirmatively pursued empirical research to enlarge his own intellectual viewpoint...
True, one may suspect that it is unjust for Calley to be the only man imprisoned for the My Lai affair. True, one may wish that clemency eventually be shown to the draft evaders. One may wish, in addition, that both the righteous right and the righteous left soften their positions. Yet the Coffin proposal smacks as much of an ill-considered trade-off as it does of Christian forgiveness. The two situations are really unrelated, both legally and morally. Each therefore deserves to be judged on its own merits, not as part of a jubilee...
These perceptions are interesting and perhaps even true, although Kelman's botched explanation of the Harvard strike renders suspect anything else he attempts to interpret. What is particularly galling is not the analysis itself, but its central focus in Kelman's political view. Rabid anti-Communism analytically divides the globe into the Free World/Communist Bloc opposition Kelman's elders have seemingly abandoned. Because the Communist enemy is so evil for Kelman, it follows that America must be virtuous, in small ways as well as substantial ones. Witness: Kelman enters an East German supermart and the place looks dull. "I longed...
...rather widely, yet convertly, bruited notion of awarding Mr. Nixon (or possibly his man Friday, the Herr Geheimrat Prof. Dr. Kissinger) the Nobel Peace Prize is preposterous enough that we can suspect it stems from the balmy brain of some unregenerate cynic, if not from some sycophant claquer of the Agnew stripe. Whoever thought it up fails to realize that so high an honor could have its seamy side, too. Mr. Nixon would find himself in a cheerless company along with men of thought, science, literature, above all, integrity, where plastic "sincerities" and windy rhetoric are not properly appreciated...