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...transform a minor insight into "a new discipline known as 'victimology' " is to do a disservice to the serious study of human behavior. A neologism does not a new discipline make. To argue that a person with ambition longs "lustfully" for injury and to juxtapose that suggestion with a picture of Robert Kennedy and the title "Is the Victim Guilty?" is, in my view, nothing short of obscene...
AMERICAN NOTES Keeping Secrets No one knew. Barring some so-far undetected insight by a journalist, diplomat or gypsy fortune teller, Henry Kissinger's excursion to Peking was a stunningly well-kept secret. Ironically, Kissinger's coup came at a time when the Pentagon papers had provoked new debate over secrecy in government. To many, both in and out of government, the documents' publication proved that government security was as leaky as a sieve, thereby endangering U.S. capability of dealing privately with other nations. Actually, the opposite conclusion could be drawn from the fact that the report...
...secret and the conflicting right of a free press to inform the public how its Government has functioned (see story page 17). Yet, even more fundamental, the legal battle focused national attention on the records that the Government was fighting so fiercely to protect. Those records afforded a rare insight into how high officials make decisions affecting the lives of millions as well as the fate of nations. The view, however constricted or incomplete, was deeply disconcerting. The records revealed a dismaying degree of miscalculation, bureaucratic arrogance and deception. The revelations severely damaged the reputations of some officials, enhanced those...
trator and gave insight into how he will handle the role of President...
Georgia O'Keeffe, L.H.D., painter. Like the desert plants you paint, you flourish in hardy surroundings, irrigating apparently barren territory with visionary insight. You have shown that great gifts can be tough and womanly, lyrical and enduring...