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...With the increasing intensity of the War in Vietnam," the Times reported in 1967, "Fortas is consulted more and more on foreign policy. As one of Johnson's closest friends, Fortas's instinct for making the wheels turn did not vanish when he donned the robe...
...often been accused of lacking the 'killer instinct,' " says Ashe. "I suppose it used to be true. When things were going bad, I'd say to myself, 'What am I doing here?' " And then he would falter. In 1963, he won the U.S. Men's Hard Court championship, but was beaten in the third round at Wimbledon. In 1965 he led the U.S. Davis Cup team to a 3-2 victory over Mexico, only to be benched during the interzone finals against Spain on the grounds that his play on clay was lackluster...
Armah can barely allow his character the luxury of hope. Out of the once-crushed idealist's instinct for self-protection, he cannot allow himself any hope at all-in the text. But what a tidal wave of yearning surges under that title! For Armah, at heart, is still a dreamer who shakes his defiant fist at the world because he has not yet found it worthy of the dreams he weaves about...
Morality Politics. First and last, Lynd is a moralizer. For all his meticulous scholarship, his instinct is to reduce American history to a series of black and white questions. Ought we to tolerate slavery? Should we fight unjust wars? Are we revering property more than people? To these questions, the reader seems to hear echoing between the lines Lynd's own answers: Civil rights. Pacifism. Socialism. Seeing less the tangled events than the abstracted issues, Lynd has composed not so much a position paper as a posture paper for the New Left. This is the politics of righteousness...
...admit that a fight ensued. Senak pulled a knife, and both girls ended up badly cut. They reported the incident to the police but refused to press charges. "The reason I got in trouble all over again," Senak told Hersey, "was because I was overzealous. It was my instinct of a police officer-though I was suspended...