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...consider almost a necessity of the soul. He has been capable of aggressive anti-intellectualism. He displayed what Frady calls his "capacity to trivialize the awesome" when, after the My Lai massacre, he submitted: "We have all had our My Lais in one way or an other . . . with a thoughtless word, an arrogant act, or a selfish deed." His definitions of sin and evil have not always done justice to the subject; he tends to concentrate on the homely offenses of drink ing, gambling, lying and even nagging...
...Your thoughtless use of South Africa as an emotional catchword belittles the suffering of that nation's people, and does not suggest a high standard of intellectual honesty at The Crimson. Andy Fruchter...
...million donation from the Engelhard Foundation, clearly exhibited the same type of amoral, heartlessly opportunistic thinking that characterizes the worst decision-making in government today -- the type of thinking that, to read the school's catalogue, it is pledged to eliminate. At best, the school's decision was thoughtless, and at worst a frightening indicator of the ability of big money to legitimize even the grossest immorality...
...words and seized on them as justification for Begin's position. "Even Carter behaved himself this week," quipped a Begin aide in Jerusalem. In Cairo, President Anwar Sadat was also astonished, but far from delighted. He was obviously shaken over what appeared to him to be a thoughtless disruption of all his careful and so far eminently successful strategy. Carter, said Sadat ruefully, "is making my job very difficult. This embarrasses me. What surprises me most is ignoring the importance of the Palestinian issue, the core and crux of the whole problem." To make amends, Carter added a brief...
...means to their ends. The decolonization of Africa is replaced by neocolonialization. Although the countries remained independent by name, the economies of all the countries is still controlled and regulated by the colonialist masters. Our political parties have no well-defined programs. Most of our leaders have become thoughtless and unwholesome. Our politicians are more of salesmen than statesmen. Much wealth accumulates in the hands of a few while a majority of the people decay with misery and poverty. The intellectual elite that was vocal, vital and critical of corrupt governments has chosen to either join the corruption, flee...