Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GHOST IN THE MACHINE, by Arthur Koestler. The novelist, journalist and philosopher constructs a brilliant brief against the scientific establishment, asserting that man is more than the sum of natural forces...
Quasi Candidacy. After a brief but foredoomed effort to linger in noncandidacy, Rockefeller announced: "I am not going to create dissension within the Republican Party by contending for the nomination, but I am ready and willing to serve the American people if called." He then held a press conference in which he attempted to define the limits of what might be termed quasi candidacy. He insisted that he would not enter any primaries because to do so would promote dissension, but said he would not discourage write-in campaigns. He will not build up a "large organization," but "if some...
...their program with nationalism, but that identification is usually most complete during revolutions, before the party has unveiled its programs and alienated sizable groups of the populace. The DLD is known to be having trouble with its intelligentsia, which is still smarting from the clamp-down which followed a brief period of academic liberalization in 1955. This new period of truncated revolution that U.S. bombing has brought about is giving the DLD a rare chance to bind old wounds...
...western societies as late as the 18th century, and in many societies even today, the transition from childhood to adulthood has been early, brief, and coercively controlled by inflexible rites of passage or apprenticeships. In these societies, adolescence, as we define it, rarely can occur. One of the extraordinary psychological achievements of industrial and post-industrial societies has been the gradual opening of an opportunity for a real adolescence to a great number of less privileged and less talented young men and women, with all of the rich possibilities for continued development this opening brings. What we have...
...After a brief visit with Governor Volpe at the state house, Miss Lansbury's motorcade wil come to the Pudding Clubhouse at 12 Holyoke Street to be greeted by fans and by the "hairy-legged chorus of this year's show, All the Queen...