I thought the Vietnam war was an utter unmitigated disaster so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing and as it now appears unlimited ascent of man to knowledge and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature.

Fear cannot be banished but it can be calm and without panic it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.