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...drive out bad government, soon after they capture a village there is usually a marked decline in public services: schools close down, medical aid disappears, roads are cut and sabotaged. As they liberate the peasants from Saigon's "oppression," the Viet Cong demand far more than Saigon would dare ask. Taxes are several times higher, and though the Viet Cong rail against the government's draft laws, which conscript young men at 20 for three years' service, the Communists take boys as young as 14 and 15 for service until the end of a war that they predict may last...
...autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would 'dare' all right 'to eat a peach'-provided he was quite sure that he possessed the correct European table-technique for that ticklish operation...
...some formal statement within the Confession, the dynamic qualities of a manifesto become associated with the Confession. Confessional language says, "Everyone should tell the truth" and "There is no moral issue more urgently confronting our church and nation than the war in Vietnam. The hour is late; the church dare not remain silent. We must declare our conscience." The language of manifesto says, "This...
That, at least, is the theory of a few "doctors" around the U.S. who bill themselves as "canine psychologists." The leading practitioner, a Beverly Hills man named Dare Miller, 40, has propagated a whole four-dollar Freudian vocabulary to explain what it is that teaches old dogs new tics...
...assumption that we could count on the applause and support of the other countries has disappeared. No European or American nation has rallied to our side. Few leaders dare speak in our favor. In Asia, propinquity to the assumed danger, the most aggressive arm-twisting has not brought us allies, only a few clients...