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Members of any national legislature have the right to nominate Peace Prize candidates. Senator Scott points to Nixon's reduction of American troops in Viet Nam from 500,000 to fewer than 50,000, the SALT agreements with the Soviet Union as well as the historic vis its to Russia and China, and the President's efforts to negotiate with the North Vietnamese for the release of American P.O.W.s. Involvement in war does not eliminate a statesman from consideration. Teddy Roosevelt rarely spoke as softly as he counseled other men to do, and he carried a sizable stick...
...WORTHY METHOD for Harvard students to expiate some of the guilt they should feel at their comfortable position vis-a-vis most of the rest of the world, the action against the University concerning its shares of Gulf has little merit. And as what appears to be a defense of principle (for Harvard had nothing in particular to gain by retaining Gulf which, for all its raw imperialism, is a weak investment), the administration's response has even less...
...that is somehow fitting. A man with Anderson's kind of mission should be a loner vis-a-vis all sorts of authority. The church-and Pearson-are probably the only yokes he has willingly borne since he left home. He grew up in Salt Lake City, the son of a postal worker; his mother once drove a taxicab to subsidize young Jack's missionary travels for the church. At the age of twelve he was a newspaper employee, reporting on Boy Scout affairs, and in high school he was student-body president. Once he tried...
America has lost some of its venturesomeness and taste for political engagement vis-à-vis Communism, and in some respects that is a good thing. But the simple humanitarian concern for truth ought to keep these radio stations alive...
...James' "We must grant the artist his subject, his idea ..." sounds as if the artist were always a man. Thus a search is under way for a set of sexless singular pronouns. A Women's Liberation lexicographer who styles herself Varda One has come up with ve, vis and ver. Others have suggested singularizing they, their and them to te, ter and tern. Someone has invented co, cos, co, which takes a pleasant form in the coself construction, and another added her and him together and got herm, which ve pointed out with reprehensible etymology...