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America's right-wingers, like Germans in the post-World War I Depression era, are looking for someone to blame for thei woes. My advice to non-white, non-Anglo-Saxon, non-Christian Americans is: Either stop these people in their tracks now through any means possible, or get out while you still can KEVIN JUDELMAN Perth, Australia...
This teams unity was really a hallmark of yesterday's victory. Harvard players constantly called encouragement to thei teammates, seen and unseen...
Waugh's first wife ran off with a future baronet, and betrayal by women is recurrent in much of his fiction. The ladies are usually charming and never malicious but they are prime examples in Waugh' natural history of thoughtlessness. Thei egoism, stupidity, conceit and self-regard become the causes for both cruelty and comedy. In A Handful of Dust, for ex ample, Brenda Last cheats on her hus band Tony. He journeys to South Amer ica and ends as the prisoner of an illiterate jungle madman who makes Tony read Dickens aloud to him for the rest...
...context is meaningless. The actions of the American government in Southeast Asia were not criminal merely because they unleashed indiscriminate violence against a smaller nation. They were criminal because the destruction was intended to annihilate a people who were striving to achieve some measure of dignity and control over thei own lives--an objective Americans have traditionally championed. What should trouble Americans is not the realization that their government has employed some sort of violence. It is the repressive objective of that violence that demands condemnation, illuminating the chasm between our government's professed ideals and its conduct...
...that Kennedy was a great President. His reasons: Kennedy made the nuclear deterrent credible, and he made clear the social and economic problems that face the U.S. For a third criterion of greatness, Alsop offers an odd suggestion: "As far as nature will permit young American males now brush thei: hair forward and out, in a sort of prow to make it look as much like John Kennedy's hair as possible...