Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came away with, also had to do with getting some things at first hand. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, I met with a high official of the National Liberation Front. He is a well educated man, not an unattractive man, obviously quiet intelligent, I gather that he's on the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front...
...nearly seven hours, squadrons of jet fighter-bombers dumped rockets, phosphorus bombs and napalm on the East Bank. They destroyed a guerrilla base, damaged several towns, terrorized Arab refugee tent-camps and knocked out gun emplacements as far inland as Irbid, 20 miles away on Jordan's arid central plateau...
...church opposition, especially among Baptists, is based on the constitutional principle of separation of church and state in its strictest form. This is often combined with a conservative political philosophy that distrusts strong central Government and big federal spending. Brigham Young President Ernest L. Wilkinson, an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1964, argues, for example, that the federal debt already is too high and that B.Y.U. does not intend "to be a party to the insolvency of our country." Federal gifts, he holds, lead inevitably to federal control, since "it would be an irresponsible Government...
...Nearly 3,500 students from Philadelphia high schools cut classes one day in November for a rally at the board of education that turned into a melee, causing 22 injuries and leading to 57 arrests. Before the Christmas vacations, mass street fighting erupted among youths from Trenton's Central High, and mob violence hit Chicago's Waller and Englewood highs. An inexplicable dance-hall riot among 700 teen-agers in Lewiston, Me., was quickly quelled by police, who were conveniently on hand-the dance was sponsored by the local Police Athletic League...
LICHTHEIM'S theme, stated most fully at the end of the first essay, is straightforward enough. The central problem in the philosophy of the last 200 years, he argues, is posed in this question: "how could the rationality of history be perceived by the intellect, given the fact that men are both inside and outside the historical process?" This leads to the search for a vantage point--an "identical subject-object of history'--from which to view the disparate and fluid arrangements of human affairs. To look at history from any but this vantage point would be to obtain...