Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are all very fine things to be doing, but should a university be doing them? If a university becomes a servant of society, a kind of social service arm of the government, then where will new and critical thought come from? Even thought come from? Even though the service are very fine, they essentially serve the status quo. And then there are problems of whom to serve. And then there is the problem of serving a particular war. And then there is the problem of ROTC. Like Barzun, the essay above argues for the old university, for the return...
...opinion of New York University's Erwin R. Tichauer, that snow shovel is poorly adapted to its user. For the flabby, middle-aged and out-of-condition male it can be dangerous, since the position of its handle imposes an unnatural and unnecessary strain on the wrist, the arm, and consequently, the heart. A far safer and more efficient design, says Tichauer, would look like this...
...Arm and Ax. Born in Berlin 51 years ago, Tichauer indulged a youthful interest in anatomical engineering by watching brewery horses pull their heavy load up the city's slopes. The lithe movements of the big cats, pacing their cages at Berlin's Tiergarten, riveted his attention for hours on end. Studying the exhibit on paleolithic man at the Museum fur Völkerkunde, he pondered the relationship between that brawny prehistoric arm and the stone ax it brandished at onlookers. After earning degrees in science and mechanical engineering, Tichauer decided to investigate for himself...
With Nixon, there is no confusion about which of his remarks can be published and which cannot; there is no difference between his public statements and private remarks. He plays no press favorites, tends to hold the entire corps at arm's length. Newsmen thus have little fear that they will be used, seduced, or played off against one another. If Nixon regards the press as a friendly adversary rather than an auxiliary tool of Government, his relative aloofness also means that reporters must work harder to scratch the smooth White House veneer and find what lies beneath...
...newcomers, as well as most veterans, seem fascinated by the mystery of the true nature of the emerging presidential Nixon. "None of us know this man very well," says Oberdorfer. Yet few fault him for his relative distance from the press. "A certain arm's-length position is a wholesome one on the part of press and President," says Peter Lisagor, who has been covering the White House for the Chicago Daily News since the Eisenhower days. "If we're too close, we lose our detachment, and if he's too close, we keep seeing...