Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right now when I left Brazil he had two very bad laws. One is already before Congress, which has 30 days to vote on it. If not voted on, it automatically controling the press, fine government has a very vague and broad concept of national security, and under that law a thing like that letter to the President [Johnson] by you [100] student leaders [sent in December to protest the Vietnam war] would never be allowed to be printed unlses we were prepared to go to jail...
Well, I can judge mostly from Brazil, which I know better, of course. Basically, I think we missed the point of the original plan meant by President Kennedy. It seems to me that he meant a broad plan of cooperation through which we would be associated with the idea of growing, of development--growing in all senses, economically, culturally, democratically...
While in the process of going on, specially after Kennedy's death, it has shrunk. Now it is rather more a problem of how to use appropriations to finance specific projects. Some of these projects, the majority of them, are very good projects, but still shrunk from the original broad and generous idea of a complete integration through cooperation...
...really need a new party concept not necessarily based on a strict, strait-jacket ideology, but rather on a broad program of courageous reform mentality. I may say, that's what some of us are trying to organize...
...with the opportunity for full employment of all sensual pleasures. They believed that complete knowledge of pleasure and sensual gratification was necessary to bring ultimate self-awareness and the eventual abandonment of physical pleasures. The acquisition of wealth (artha) and the enjoyment of sense pleasure (kama) -- contained within the broad limits of a moral law (dharma) which protects the weaker from the stronger -- are all legitimate occupations of men on the outward path...