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Monday, October 30: Religion Department Colloquy--Michael Walzer, professor of Government at Harvard will discuss 'Just and Unjust Wars," Coolidge Room, 8 pm. Refreshments...
...institutional change. A leader and his followers may interact with noble intentions and never converge with a propitious historical environment. To exclude American socialist Norman Thomas and his followers from the hallowed halls of leadership because they were unable to achieve what they had hoped to is an unjust rendering of leadership...
...unremitting hard work. In the 13 books that followed he fashioned a stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously researched professional backdrops. The Last Adam (1933) was about a doctor; Men and Brethren (1936) was about a minister; The Just and the Unjust (1942) and By Love Possessed (1957) about lawyers. Cozzens' plots are seamless and compelling, his protagonists unromantic, conservative and admirable for their maturity and self-discipline and for doing the best they can with what they have. "I have no thesis," he once said, "except that people get a very...
...twists and turns of the Cultural Revolution, is executed by a group of Red Guards. Unable to perceive that he has become a victim of irrationality and self-righteousness, he clings like some Chinese Billy Budd to the one bit of certainty he knows. At the moment of his unjust death, he shouts, "Long live the Communist Party! Long live Chairman Mao!" Another less innocent victim is Jen Hsiu-lan, a proud, fanatical woman revolutionary who loses out in one of the revolution's murky factional twists. Rather than submit to the humiliation of selfcriticism, she drowns herself...
...retrospect, he says, Vietnam was clearly an unjust war and he might have been out there demonstrating himself were he young: "As I thought about it more, I realized it wasn't necessary for them to die." It was in Vietnam in 1965 with "airplanes and more aiplanes coming every day from home" that Richardson began to tire of his career. When it came time for another tour of duty, he opted out--"A little too old run those hills...