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...many hours of Congressional visits, the veterans have spoken to anyone they could find. Several of the hawk Congressmen have been put off by the blunt assertiveness of the lobbying groups. These are the men with the audacity to, in one breath, advise the vets that their protest would be more effective if they looked more respectable, and in the next breath assert their unwavering, unwaverable support for President Nixon...
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life?they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat?however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.?Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
...Harvard G and S Iolanthe is almost uniformly excellent, allowing for the perennially weak violins. Someday these people will learn that G and S, all G and S, requires a large violin section, and one which is in tune-but I'm not holding my breath. Noreen Tuross's choreography milked the ensembles for every laugh they contained, and Kenneth Kanter's stage direction was thoroughly inspired. Kanter has managed to maneuver the entire company of Iolanthe -dozens of lords and fairies, mortals and others-around the ludicrously small Agassiz stage without making the entire company look awkward. His actors...
...picture I saw reflected through TIME'S eyes was that of a highly unappreciative, spoiled lot of young men who, having been promised the gift horse, come together to bitch about its breath...
Ashen, Calley marched off to the Fort Benning stockade. The next afternoon he was back before the court-martial to make a final statement before sentencing. Choking back tears, occasionally gasping for breath, Calley spoke first strongly, then in a breaking voice. "Yesterday you stripped me of all my honor. Please, by your actions that you take here today, don't strip future soldiers of their honor." Captain Aubrey M. Daniel III, 29, Calley's brilliant, tenacious prosecutor, followed. "You did not strip him of his honor," Daniel told the jury. "What he did stripped him of his honor...