Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset of his campaign for the presidency, Richard Nixon adopted an aloof, efficient style that was designed to fulfill a double objective: he wanted to show himself to the nation as a cool, controlled figure, and he wanted to avoid the sort of major mistake that can lose an election. From New Hampshire through the convention and well into the campaign, the tactic has worked well. There have been no irretrievable blunders. Yet Nixon has made some moves that may prove to be mistakes-or that, at least, his opponents can exploit as mistakes. There is no sign...
...probably the discipline and understanding America's Government and place in the world. The question is: Can he lead? Can he gain the trust of the Negroes, whom he has nearly ignored? And the youth who have marched out of the hall? Can he avoid the excessive cleverness that can in the end wreck public confidence...
Into the Stream. Violence-and university intransigence-were rejected by the special commission, under former U.S. Solicitor General Archibald Cox, that was appointed to investigate last spring's student rebellion at Columbia. Implicitly advising other school administrations on how to avoid such troubles, the Cox report contends that Columbia administrators had too often "conveyed an attitude of authoritarianism and invited distrust" of students and that the roots of unrest lay in a "deepseated dissatisfaction with Columbia life" among nonradical students and faculty. Cox concluded that "the survival of Columbia as a leading university depends upon finding ways of drawing...
What, in turn, will this produce in the way of results and consequences? Since I am not trying to avoid difficult questions, I will admit that the results may not be entirely pleasant. Perhaps exclusion of CIA personnel might mean a gradual cutting off of federal funds for the EARC, or the rise of barriers to Harvard faculty desiring to enter government service, or a deficiency in the ability of "analysts" and others to correctly determine foreign policy. I hope I have accurately anticipated your worst fears, for to me, at least, none of these would be particularly distressing...
...rating system does present one major question: Will the film moguls tamper with the artistic integrity of their product to avoid a classification that will shut out the under-16 market? Next year will tell. At least the producer will have the option of appealing to a board headed by Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti. Mr. Valenti's credentials for making moral judgements aren't bad; he left the Johnson Administration two and a half years...