Word: blueprinters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither Kirk nor any other expounder of conservatism can blueprint the conservative mind or doctrine. Blueprints belong to the radicals, the Utopians, the innovators who drew the plans for new societies in the solitudes of their own minds. The history of conservative thought is found unpackaged, warm with the lives of men, glimpsed by the poets and novelists, hammered out by practical politicians who turned from immediate experience to distill the principles of experience...
...deliver an atomic attack "large enough to cripple or even devastate this country . . ."At present, the Alsops went on, U.S. defenses against such an attack were so inadequate that they "really amount to no air defense at all." To remedy this situation, the nation must follow the Project Lincoln blueprint: "An early-warning net must be thrown around the almost inaccessible northern fringes of the hemisphere . . . All the parts [of the warning net] must automatically guide the defenders to the attackers . . . Fighter air bases and guided-missile launching sites must be arranged in echelons, from the air frontier...
Having helped draft the blueprint, Finley was anxious to prove it practical. He began an elementary humanities course covering Homer, Vergil, and Dante; this year, "The Epic and the Novel," divided between Finley and I. A. Richards, has one of the largest enrollments in the College...
...heart attack. In 1942 McDonald was elected secretary-treasurer, and then was regularly reelected. In his spare time he played duffer's golf, learned to fly and piloted his own plane, but also worked hard at the union's affairs. He drew up the blueprint for an organizing drive in the South, sat on committees dealing with social security, traveled abroad as a union representative, plugged the Good Neighbor line in Latin America, sat in the U.N.'s International Labor Organization. He became Murray's hand-picked heir apparent. In Murray's shoes he seems...
Details from the blueprint of the new city...