Word: viciousness
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...COLD BLOOD, by Truman Capote. In an effort to expand the dimensions of journalism by exploring the subsurface of a vicious and senseless murder, Novelist Capote has permanently enriched and amplified the reporter's craft...
...hardly share your optimism that "Spain is an awakening land." The brutal fact is that Spain still remains dormant, a tragedy to the Western world since 1939. The alliance of the Spanish church, the military leaders and the monarchists will certainly find the means to continue the vicious circle in which the country finds itself. Ideas and men make a nation, and unfortunately Spain has neither...
...force since mid-December. Officials in Saigon launched a pre-Tet propaganda-for-peace campaign that included airdrops of millions of leaflets and safe-conduct passes for Viet Cong defectors, and endless broadcasts of heart-rending ballads ("Oh, what dreams are you making, dreaming of the success of the vicious Communists?"). But Hanoi seemed as deeply committed as ever to its stubborn, bloody gamble for South Viet...
Walter M. Licht '67 and Robert LaRocca '68, the liberals, convincingly describe (complete with footnoted sources) a vicious circle of original military commitment which could only have led to further involvement. The authors agree with Hans Morgenthau that the U.S. is caught because of its basic misconception of its role in world affairs. Licht and LaRocca see escape from the circle in total withdrawal of U.S. forces and a Vietnam government led by the National Liberation Front. Many American liberals, however, might object to their designation of the NLF as the sole legitimate representative of the South Vietnamese people...
...Tashkent this week under the sponsoring eye of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin, that old Uzbek saying sounds overoptimistic. Kosygin invited the pair to Tashkent during the height of last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war. Since then, an uneasy, U.N.-imposed "ceasefire" has been torn almost daily by vicious, small-scale clashes, and both sides have counted more than 3,596 "violations...