Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...town's fringes. Fellahin stolidly plowed their fields. On an adjacent canal, tall-masted feluccas sailed gracefully. At the National Metal Industries Co., however, fires smoldered everywhere, and at a hospital close by, bodies were stacked like cordwood. Because the Israelis so rarely make mistakes, there was doubt that the attack was inadvertent. Yet Israeli officials seemed genuinely surprised when reports began coming out of Egypt on the bombing of the factory. Finally, the military command announced that there had been inaccurate bombing because of a "technical error"-but it offered no further explanation. As if to underscore that...
...teach those sweet, brown children how to fight (or, more probably, why they should), was proof enough of Nixon's good faith. But just to have something to offer everyone. Nixon also trotted out Sir Robert Thompson. "British insurgency expert," who assured us that there was no doubt that America was winning in Vietnam. Six weeks after the March on Washington, Richard Nixon was alternately telling his people that he was a) winning and b) de-escalating the war. Meanwhile. Reuters reports that more G. I.'s than ever before occupy Vietnam and American planes make daily, unadmitted air-strikes...
...last week's conference, certainly not YSA, denies that Nixon was shown what the American people think . And yet the SMC program for the spring focuses on more mass demonstrations, more participatory manifestations of what the people are thinking . Though they showed Nixon beyond a shadow of a doubt last fall, they know that they just have to show him again this spring to force his hand...
...Love, the most unfortunate muffing has been done by the director, Albert Marre. Marre has, for some reason unknown to me, taken Alfred's lyrically sad saga of polities, love, scandal and death in nineteenth-century Irish Brooklyn and turned it into a dirge. It is without a doubt one of the most misguided jobs of musical staging I've ever seen. Marre should know that tragedy can only work in musicals if treated slyly: the sadder events of Hogan's Goat must sneak in the back door of Who to Love -for if the audience is allowed to dwell...
After meeting with the mothers, Hock-man said. "I don't doubt that they're correct in what they're saying...