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...often hidden the recurring tensions between central government and regions, between Emperor and officialdom or ambitious war lords-and, above all, the sometimes intolerable inner tensions of trying to maintain harmony. As China Scholar Etienne Balazs put it: "The smiling landscape is found to be a veil which, when torn asunder, reveals a craggy vista of precipices and extinct volcanoes, reminiscent of the visions with which most Chinese landscape painters were obsessed...
...injuries were reported during either of the incidents, and the only damages were two cases of torn clothing. No arrests were made...
Escape Hatch. Among many Administration-watchers, the feeling is strong -though it is little more than a feeling -that McNamara is upholding Johnson's policy despite deep personal doubts about the bombings. "McNamara," says a State Department official, "is torn between what's necessary and what's desirable." Recently McNamara was asked if he thought the bombing was effective. He said no. In that case, he was asked, why not call it off? "I've got my generals too," said the Secretary...
...anti-Nazi underground by the time he was 16, first went to Viet Nam in 1953 to record the death struggle of the French army. He became fascinated by Viet Nam, and turned the task of understanding and explaining the agony, hopes, failures and confusion of the torn country into a personal mission. Armed with master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Syracuse, he became at once a journalist, academician, lecturer and pundit...
...Lipset continues, because they can't have it both ways. They complain first that they don't have any courses which are applicable today-- "We (the Left) are locked up in an Ivory Tower which has no contact with the events of today." But when the Ivory Tower is torn down, and the real world turns out to be the Establishment, then they want to rebuild their fortress--their Ivory Tower. "What the Left really wants is a politicized campus with a Left Penchant," or else they will scream that Theory is their protection against short-sighted, uncritical, policy-oriented...