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...suit their own purposes. Thus, to the abolitionists, Lincoln was a temporizer; in the eyes of the Copperheads, he was a radical. The Chicago Tribune thought the New Deal was a Red Star over America; new left historians say it was a clever sell-out to Wall Street. But seldom has an event so quickly inspired so many different self-serving interpretations as the Watergate scandal. In the last year and a half, the nation has witnessed the creation of a Watergate mythology which, if it prevails, will compound the disaster by obscuring its causes and preventing their correction...
...kamikaze pilot. Fortunately, World War II ended before he flew a suicide mission, but while waiting, he picked up a stone, fondled its shape and texture, and never forgot the experience. Since then, he has seldom been out of stone's reach...
...deeply grateful and appreciative of your report on my talk at Harvard on Tuesday November 13, 1973 on the Middle East situation. The coverage you have given to an Arab spokesman is a novel experience in American Journalism where the Arab point of view has seldom been presented. However, may I seize this opportunity to correct certain inaccuracies in your report which must have resulted from the lack of a prepared text. Contrary to what you have reported I have stated that one of the important results of the 6 October. War is the shattering of the myth of Israel...
...pride is justifiable. Seldom have sophisticated design, magisterial color and gaiety of spirit been so well combined. With Sobreteixims, Miró has transformed the Royo tapestries from admirable folk art into perhaps master pieces. But after all, Miró is only 80. What next...
...eloquent memorial to his talent. Ryan, who died of cancer in July, was ailing while he was making Iceman. In the circumstances, it would be easy to sentimentalize his performance. But such a gesture would diminish its greatness. With the kind of power and intensity that is seldom risked, much less realized, it has its own pride and stature...