Word: againstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COURAGE leads starward, fear toward death," wrote Seneca. Man needs courage simply to live in spite of knowing that he must die. He needs it to live richly-to take risks and thereby define himself. There are many kinds of courage, moral and physical, but all involve a struggle against...
Obviously it takes brave men to climb into that capsule and undergo the immense risks that lie between the earth and the moon and the earth again. Yet, to thoughtful skeptics, the superorganized voyage of Apollo 11 suggests that lone, individual courage belongs to the past. The astronauts often seem...
In theory, the surtax is a fiscal mechanism, a key weapon in the fight against inflation. In practice-as two Presidents have discovered to their chagrin-Congress has found it a handy lever for forcing its fiscal views on the Chief Executive. Last year a House coalition compelled Lyndon Johnson...
Mansfield's hope is that the House Ways and Means Committee, which is working on its own plan to revise the tax structure, will get its version of reform passed by the House and the Senate before Congress goes on vacation Aug. 13. Administration economists contend that if the...
Though Nixon pledged that the program would not be forced on individuals against their beliefs, an official of the New York Catholic archdiocese charged that it would add "an implicit pressure" on welfare mothers to accept. A Florida N.A.A.C.P. leader also criticized the program on the grounds that blacks "need...