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...Night, he added, "won the Pulitzer Prize, and it should not be restricted." Nevertheless, the shelves will continue to ban some fiction, especially the overly sexy kind. "We are not a circulation library," says Deputy Director Henry Loomis. "We are in the business of supplying books which portray America in a fair and balanced way. Anyone who objects to this is probably in the wrong line of work...
...Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of the Harvard College Classes of 1690-1760," of which 11 volumes appeared between 1933 and 1968. His remark years ago that, "If I live to be 80, I can get to the class of 1800" still stands. He set out to portray these early Harvard men "warts and all," and he observed that "Those who were hanged are just as important as the ones ordained." Of one early graduate, he wrote, "Certainly he achieved no distinction at Harvard beyond that which resulted from his participation in disorders...
These scenes portray the military of the outside world as cruel and mindless, while the village survives as sensible and socially responsible. In the movie, Crichton's sentiment is very much weakened...
...anti-war movement is ever to broaden its perspective so as to be able to attack the entire structure of American policy in the Third World-the structure that may well lead us into new Vietnams before long-then the movement must at some time have the courage to portray the situation in the world as it is, and to argue that Third World peoples who are fighting for the control of their own destinies are right and should be supported. And it may be a long while before so clear an opportunity for the anti-war movement to take...
...ending was, it stemmed from a growing conviction in Washington that the impending courts-martial of the Berets would have been even messier. Two of the nation's most publicized lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and F. Lee Bailey, had been hired by the defendants and were poised to portray their clients as victims of nasty rivalries among U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies. They would have blistered the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, for initiating the charges and would have exposed jealousies between the regular Army and the elite Special Forces. The cold-blooded killing of double agents...