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...have precipitated the Cuban missile crisis because the Soviet leader thought he faced a callow kid. Lyndon Johnson used his jet like seven-league boots, striding over the world with low-calorie root beer and Texas steaks in the galley, gathering Prime Ministers around him as he worried about Viet Nam, presiding above the clouds from his automatic chair that went up and down at the touch of a button. There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall...
...will make it to the lexicons; most will wither before the new year ends. Pessimists have a point when they refer to the new excrescences of television ego-talk. But optimists are not wrong when they find clearer days on Capitol Hill and a tonic absence of Viet Nam euphemisms and campus-v.-cops rhetoric. "Things are improving," says TV Pundit Edwin Newman (A Civil Tongue): "Schools are finally doing what they ought to do, teaching the basic English that we have neglected for too long. But," he admits, "the headmaster at one school recently told his faculty, 'There...
...drive not only met but exceeded its goal for the first time in a decade. Said Drive Director Howard Studd: "We're really a good barometer of psychological attitudes. People are feeling relaxed and confident about the future. We're coming off a couple of rough years-Viet Nam, Watergate, inflation, unemployment. People had lost faith in the public institutions. Maybe they're regaining their faith...
...edited by Michael Davie. One of the century's great novelists discloses incidents in his life (among them the death of a child and a crucial stint as a public school teacher) that he put to brilliant use in his fiction. Dispatches by Michael Herr. Combat reports from Viet Nam, circa 1967, fused with afterthoughts ten years in the collecting, conspire to make the war and its aftermath unforgettable. The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas. A provocative, tightly reasoned study that locates the roots of American mass consumerism among housewives and the liberal clergy of the 19th...
...become analgesic; they first stimulate the moral sense, then dull it by overload. There is a truth to that, but not the whole truth. No matter what one may say against the continual voyeurism of photography, the likelihood is that it played as great a role in finishing the Viet Nam War as the printed word did. (One main reason why civilians in England could tolerate the idea of trench warfare for so long, after 1916. was that they had extremely few photographs of it and so an insufficient sense of outrage...