Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab belligerence by punitive raids. Now, any heavy retaliation would only play into Nasser's hands by intensifying a war scare that Israel wants to play down. Accordingly, Israel struck back in a manner obviously intended to impress the Egyptians with a display of its capability, without exacerbating big-power fears of a new war. Tel Aviv announced that its commandos had penetrated deep into Egypt, cutting a power line and damaging a bridge and the Nag Hammadi dam 270 miles south of Cairo...
...only weaponry expert who moved into a position of influence in the party. Last week, as reports on the recently concluded Ninth Party Congress flooded out of Peking, the increasing pre-eminence of the military in China's politics was as easy to read as a big-character wall poster...
Pizzas and Laundromats. Evidence of the American presence is everywhere. Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans...
According to Plato, a man is irresponsible not to aid society if he has the intelligence to do so. That formulation of the intellectual's responsibility has an unassailable simplicity, but the role acquires deep moral complexity when intellectuals join big organizations such as government. The very political activism that so cheered intellectuals in the first days of the New Frontier is now widely regarded as corruption and betrayal. Under John Kennedy and on into the Johnson Administration, the intellectual seemed ubiquitous -moving back and forth among the universities, government, business and industry. Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer...
...Cardinal Newman's 19th century idea of the university as a seeker of wholeness. Many intellectuals are also dismayed by the style of much intellectual thought today: the narrow pragmatism of the physical and behavioral sciences. The charge is that specialization has robbed thought of moral vision. In Big Science, for example, team members work on such small segments of an overall project that they feel no ethical responsibility for the result-a minor concern if the goal is a cancer cure, for example, but a major one if they work on pesticides...