Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prompted reforms in some areas; in many, it has been largely ignored. Mayor John Reading of Oakland, Calif., even accuses the Kerner commission of being partly responsible for the militants' takeover of Oakland's black leadership. "Permissiveness will do us in," says Reading, "and the Kerner answer was permissiveness." To this, New York Mayor John Lindsay, who was vice chairman of the Kerner commission, replies that if repression becomes society's reaction to disorder, "we might then have to choose between the random terror of the criminal and the official terror of the state...
...says a history student in West Germany. "If there is any chance of winning this battle, I want to go back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return eventually, particularly the intellectuals. "None of us has the right to do what we did, then leave when things blow...
Nobody knows how to oppose the war effectively. To try to force an artificial confrontation between Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, and the Marine Corps is not an answer. But because the war has thrust itself into every part of American life, one grabs onto every opportunity to fight and every symbol of opposition. Each symbol is inadequate, but each one becomes important. Last week Olimpieri was important...
...outcome of this classic pitchers' confrontation has been debated tirelessly for weeks. Everyone has an opinion: no one has an answer...
...this calculation Johnson and his advisors committed the cardinal sin of diplomacy: they failed to place themselves in the enemy's shoes and examine the options as he must see them. What would Johnson have thought if the North Vietnamese offered peace and then launched a Tet offensive? The answer is clear. The error was so elementary that Johnson could hardly have taken the peace initiative seriously to begin with. The tendency of American statesmen to judge themselves and their enemies by different standards is a continuing motif of the Vietnam...