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...anything any of us academics could have done that would have made much difference on our Vietnam policy even if we had seen the absurdity of the policy and the course it would take with the foresight we now have in hindsight. Did Roger Hillsman or Jim Thomson or even Arthur Schlesinger's resignation from the government help bring about a change? To be sure, there is an "effectiveness trap," but I think one might say there is a "moral purity" trap too, for the person who remains morally pure accomplishes little except to salve his own conscience...
...JOURNAL. "Never a Backward Step." Documentary on Lord Thomson, whose press empire comprises 149 papers in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Thomson discusses the press with Media Medium Marshall McLuhan and conducts an interview with Stalinist Antonin Novotny while he was President of Czechoslovakia...
Other on the staff from Harvard include Rupert Emerson, George B. Kistiakowsky, John Kenneth Galbraith, Albert O. Hirschman, and James C. Thomson. Also on the advisory staff are Hans Morgenthau of the University of Chicago and Roy Macritis of Brandeis...
...VIRGIL THOMSON: Four Saints in Three Acts (RCA Victor LM 2756). The Thomson-Gertrude Stein masterpiece of sophistication and naivete, recorded under the composer's direction...
...woman behind the name began to grow old. Polly Thomson died. The travels ceased, the books stopped coming, and instead of the aging legend in the newspapers and newsreels, Helen Keller was seen as a young girl again in William Gibson's The Miracle Worker, which told of her early days with Teacher when she was rescued from what she called the "no-world." The play and the motion picture brought alive for yet another generation the example of Helen Keller's conquest of adversity. Last week, shortly before her 88th birthday, Helen Keller died in her home...