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...intelligent Americans dispute the gravity of many ills that afflict the nation, from hard-core unemployment to rotten-core cities, poisoned air to polluted waters, or question the need to attack them vigorously. No amount of legislation will root out racial prejudice or inspire the excellence that is dismayingly absent from many aspects of American life. Nonetheless, as Author Wattenberg points out, "in American history, the evidence suggests that it is the optimist who has been the realist." At least, this side of the Great Society, Americans do not have to be ashamed to count their blessings...
Among the guests were Painters Willem deKooning and Ben Shahn, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter, Poetess Marianne Moore, Architects Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...
...there is one, and whatever position Che holds or appears to hold when and if he emerges, the split with Castro is real. Toward week's end Castro's government announced the formation of a new party leadership, and Guevara's name was notably absent from the list. In place of the old national directorate, of which Guevara was a top-ranking member, the party created a new secretariat, central committee and a higher-level political bureau that will serve as the party's principal executive council. As one U.S. expert puts it: "Castro...
...tone of Morgenthau's speech was rational and analytical, and contained some irony born of disappointment. He spoke to the absent government as if to a simple child, explaining that if you want to end a war by negotiation, you have to negotiate with your opponents, even if they are "rebels". But it is his values, as much as his rational analysis, which separates Morgenthau from the strategists in Washington on the perception of Vietnam and the general disease of American foreign policy...
...ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE by Heinrich Böll. 148 pages. McGraw-Hill...