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...said that Henry Kissinger was more brilliant than Walt Rostow or McGeorge Bundy. What we have learned from the publication of the papers is the futility of intellectual brilliance in government, its assistance to stupidity. Neither through systems analysis nor social or technological science can we manipulate a world of men. As George Ball's testimony indicates, what is necessary is more human understanding, which transcends intelligence-an understanding permeated with self-scrutiny and humility...
...moved in troops of his own without consulting the U.S. Reacting with what the Pentagon analysts called "unrestrained fury," the State Department cabled the embassy to stop the fighting. "This may require tough talk," read the dispatch, "but the U.S. cannot accept this insane bickering." Marine General Lewis W. Walt threatened to use U.S. jets to shoot down any South Vietnamese plane that tried to attack the dissidents, and Deputy Ambassador William J. Porter withdrew U.S. airlift and advisers from the Saigon government until Thieu, who was a member of Ky's ruling coterie of generals, gave assurances that...
Depending on the individual temperament, other gurus are Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound (of the Cantos). A special niche is reserved for Robert Lowell. A genuine poet who happens to be a suffering man, he has inadvertently acquired followers who think suffering is the main thing and meticulously record their own under the impression that it is necessarily poetry...
...preoccupations have taken more of his time lately than his writing, leaving Gregory Corso as his archdisci-ple. At 41, Corso has a tone a trifle less shrill, decorated with more literary allusions, perhaps more varied rhythmically than Ginsberg's. It is still a prosody deriving directly from Walt Whitman, full of "I saw," "I swear," "I weep," "I curse," "I look" and studded with sudden "O's" and exclamation marks...
Other tart criticisms were offered by two of Johnson's White House intellectuals, the University of Texas' Walt Rostow and Brandeis' John Roche. Rostow said that the Pentagon researchers had exercised a "most egregious extraction out of context" of his "hundreds of memos on Southeast Asia." Newspapers, he contended, had further distorted the perspective. "If a student here at Texas were to turn in a term paper where the gap between data and conclusions was as wide as that between the Pentagon study and the newspaper stories, he would expect to be flunked." Roche scoffed at the study as "third...