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...year before the Tonkin Gulf incident, the Administration found itself helpless when it needed to weigh the Buddhist uprisings that preceded the fall of Ngo Dinh Diem. In the pressure of crisis, the Government could find no experts who were capable of appraising why such an apparently trivial series of events came to have such overwhelming importance. While U.S. sophistication about Southeast Asia has inevitably grown since then, intelligence is still based on an uneven apparatus of informers and interpreters; it is a shaky foundation for any statesman to build...
...eagerness to provide the definitive account of the spring events. the authors have crammed far too many names, dates, resolutions, and background details into the story. Throughout the crowded pages, they have been too timid about summarizing peripheral facts in order to highlight important ones. Unless readers assume that trivial details at Harvard are somehow more interesting than the same minutiae elsewhere, there is no reason for the profusion of data...
...senseless, defensive measures taken by the University, I wonder if you are aware of this very trivial...
...Bert Bacharach, coming up stoned to get his second award and muttering, "Two of them? That's just too fantastic"-and even a little honest sentiment. John Wayne did seem sincerely moved to receive an Oscar at last. But the show as a whole consisted mostly of light and trivial chit-chat between the stars who were presenting the awards, followed by the announcement of the winners, who generally gave the expected and uninteresting "I'd like to thank all those who made this award possible" speech. (Making films involves a lot of teamwork, John Wayne explained...
...something always happens to Godard in the middle of his films. He seems to get bored and self-conscious. But even bored and self-conscious Godard is worth seeing- it just becomes that much more difficult to separate the profound from the trivial. In an interesting sequence called "All About Eve" an interviewer harasses a mournful woman (played by Anna Wiazemsky) with questions Godard feels obligated to ask himself in the middle of every film: "Do you think culture is order? Is a man of culture as far from an artist as a historian from a man of action...