Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintenance of the bombing will do little but undermine these goals. Secretary of Defense McNamara has openly doubted its military effectiveness. The argument that it is necessary to bolster the morale of Saigon is a specious one, for Ky is in little danger of being toppled. But to intensify the war in the North as a response to peace feelers that didn't work out is no answer. And to insist, as the President did in Nashville last week, that it "aims to exact a penalty" from the North for its violations of 1954 and 1962 Geneva accords implies...
...incidents in the book are true," he said last week. "We thought we could handle power better than the people we took it from, but we were mistaken. I do not condemn one man alone. I condemn the system that produced this man. My book is an argument against the bankruptcy of our system." In his book, he adds: "They [the Communist leadership] are all fat-a custom-made fat. They were tough when the revolution was tough, but when the revolution got rotund, they grew with...
...argument immediately raised by the committee's request concerns Harvard's general policy of avoiding positions that could be construed as "political." Yet HUAC's chilling effect on free speech--in this case, the freedom of students to associate legally with whom they please--would seem to transcend this objection...
...effects of the current turmoil in China on the Japanese is worthy of detailed analysis. Although we suffer, like the Americans, from a scarcity of reliable information from China, argument about China has dominated almost every publication in Japan. And I think it might be possible to suggest a spectrum of Japanese thought about the Cultural Revolution and to separate several types of thought within this spectrum...
...listened--to student activists, students in academic difficulty, students who had a new project in civil rights or drama or social work. He has borne long hours of argument with tireless patience, and greeted new proposals with enthusiasm. In his six years as Dean of the College he has been more accessible than most professors. Students button-holed him in his office without appointments, and they debated with him at Harvard Policy Committee meetings for two hours every week. Editors of this newspaper called him often, sometimes at odd hours of the night. He was available for advice and conversation...