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...that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis: "Get me outside the country and suddenly I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S." Such pride goes far beyond material advantages...
...upon Yale's vacation schedule for deciding how to press its foreign policy?" Or Buckley may carry an opponent's line of reasoning one step further and make it look ridiculous. On Firing Line, TV Star Robert Vaughn started naming the people he thought had conspired to commit the U.S. to the defense of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime in South Viet Nam. "Joseph Buttinger, General Edward Lansdale, Wesley Fishel, Cardinal Spellman . ." Buckley broke in: "And the Holy Ghost?" With these tactics, Buckley often reduces his adversaries to nonverbal floundering. Novelist Nelson Algren simply gave up talking...
Project director Ronald Pollock, a New York University law student, admitted that "the project won't have any great impact on Mississippi, but it will on the people who go down there." Most are first-year law students, who, said Pollock, would be likely to commit more time to such work in the future...
...with what people can do, can make of these bodies so excellent for loving, exploring, and dying a more fitting death than the nuclear, the explosive, the incendiary, or the long slow death of the neutral man, who sells death, or lends it his secretary, or merely does not commit as much of himself to life as he might. Merrill Kaitz...
...paper, Stars and Stripes. It is not so much the competition that bothers the Pentagon as the fact that the Overseas Weekly never tires of twitting the military establishment. In between gobs of cheesecake and lurid crime stories, it exposes such eccentrics as the colonel who was able to commit an enlisted man to a psychiatric ward because the man had defended his friends at courtsmartial. Or the officers who punished two G.I.s by tying them together and leading them around like dogs on a leash. Not to mention former Major General Edwin Walker, who was discovered by the Weekly...