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...were skewed, endowed with a wild irony. The greatest military power on earth brought all of its technology?all but the doomsday bombs?to bear on a peasant nation slightly larger than Florida. The smallest war, 9,000 miles from San Diego, became a national obsession that capsized a consensus President and undermined some of the most crucial American institutions?the military, the universities and, more broadly, the framework of authority itself, the sheer believability of Government...
...ideological policy based upon a national agreement that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price?for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than they probably otherwise would have...
...brilliant instrumental of Valerie Simpson's "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You." Also, Beck journeyed to Detroit several years back to do some sessions with the Motown house band that've become an underground legend. Nothing from the seasions was ever released, but critical consensus is that the mating of slick Detroit soul and lower class English raunch was doomed from the start...
Since the announcement of this plan by Harvard, colleges and universities from all parts of the country have been writing for information and background materials. Similar plans are being formulated by many schools for next year, and there is a kind of developing consensus that some such plan is the most advantageous for student borrower. I recognize the constraints of time and space in your reporting, but they should not eliminate clarity or information essential to a balanced account. R. Jerrold Director, Univ. Student Loan Office
...early consensus was that candidate McGovern was a persistent but nevertheless hapless loser. Although the columnists have in recent days triumphantly resurrected this early line, they were given a scare in the spring and summer...