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Lyndon Johnson thus perhaps was within reach of a wider public consensus on the Viet Nam war than he had yet been able to achieve. Some Administration officials have hinted that this may presage some kind of peace bid. This week Buddha's birthday offers the President an opportunity to announce an extended bombing pause to determine whether North Viet Nam will really begin meaningful negotiations once its territory is no longer under air attack. There is widespread speculation in Washington that Johnson will seize the opportunity, despite its high political risks and though he is under intense pressure...
...ugly and painful existence, is bound to be unattractive." Stanford University's Protestant Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier believes that God and man are cheapened by the idea that good behavior can buy "a good berth in the afterlife." As for hell, Napier shares the growing consensus that perdition cannot be permanent. To condemn even an unrepentant Hitler to eternal suffering, he says, "makes a demon...
...movement the trickle of federal dollars for social projects will be shut off completely. Certainly, on the one hand, these conditions will open up new fronts for organizing but as we have noted above, the government will be unable to tolerate any dissent, as its grip on a domestic consensus becomes even more tenuous...
...Consensus politics practiced in the clubs and back rooms away from public scrutiny and attack is abhorred. So are the liberals who know what is right but do too little about it over too long a period. They are considered the worst hypocrites of all. Student activists tend to see the establishment in its totality as monolithic and discount any cracks that may appear in its granite face. All authority, except their own, is suspect. Exercise of authority by the university is seen not as a legitimate protection of the university but as a line of defense for the society...
...raises the obstacles for rationally predicting a pennant finish to an annual high. Every team in the junior, and perenially weaker, loop, has so many holes to fill that of the five teams equally justified to finish second, none should be able to win. That is why the overwhelming consensus leans toward Baltimore: the Orioles won last year, so memory over-rides the rebellion of reason at the thought of their triumphing...