Word: paths
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...pulled up in the middle of the Square, a motorcycle policeman bolted across its path and Gilday cased to a stop. As police closed in, he handed his gun to Thomas Huberdeau and said "Now make them believe you captured me, I want to give myself...
...this one. Running Bear and Little White Dove both jumped in the river, and both drowned when the raging river pulled them down. But Running Bear stayed up a bit longer, and similarly, I think Brown will win this game today before both teams start on the merry path to the Ivy League cellar...
This volume, although it is a collection of his dispatches for The New Yorker from 1965 to 1970, reads more like a continuous story than a set of unconnected columns. From before the great escalation in 1965, Shaplen traces the tragic and tortuous path this war has taken to the present. Early on, he realized how little the military aspects of the war really mean. His columns on the persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic Directory, the ruling junta of generals, informed America of the scandalous political repression within South Vietnam. He also seems to have realized from the beginning...
...imitating. But by rejecting the pre-programmed lives that the kindergarten-through-college channeling system provides, we also have the necessity of creating our own lives. The ones that have been planned for us have already been lived, and there is no sense for us to follow their futile path, carrying our cog's worth of American culture to the scrap heap. In exchange for having to live through some of the greatest horrors the world has ever seen, we are left to our creativity to find our own left to our creativity to find our own direction...
Chile's Aspirations: In essence we want to be an economically independent country with the right to choose our own path. We are believers in self-determination of the people, and in nonintervention. We want to maintain the best relations with all the countries of the world, and we hope that the American Government will understand that. Our revolution is within the right of a sovereign state...