The Third World War

Ground Slipping

You can’t see the hour hand move if you keep watching, and so it is with any gradual process. I was away from this country for six weeks, and, getting back, I am struck by what appears to me a substantial shift in public opinion concerning the Vietnam war, though I imagine that if I had been here all along I wouldn’t have noticed much change. I have decidedly the impression that anti-war feeling has much increased; increased in the general— the normal—population at the same time that its more flamboyant expression in the offbeat strata has somewhat abated.

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Ground Slipping

You can’t see the hour hand move if you keep watching, and so it is with any gradual process. I was away from this country for six weeks, and, getting back, I am struck by what appears to me a substantial shift in public opinion concerning the Vietnam war, though I imagine that if I had been here all along I wouldn’t have noticed much change. I have decidedly the impression that anti-war feeling has much increased; increased in the general— the normal—population at the same time that its more flamboyant expression in the offbeat strata has somewhat abated.