Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-level officials from several agencies who review important operational questions, convened at the State Department last week, all the faces were familiar from the Johnson era. Though hardly trifling, the vitriolic, five-month-old dispute with Peru over seizure of U.S. oil properties is just now receiving close attention. The new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Charles Meyer, a former Sears, Roebuck vice president in charge of hemisphere operations, was selected only this month. A special presidential envoy, New York Lawyer John Irwin II, was not sent to Lima until last week. Harry Flemming, head...
...must begin with an understanding of the term democracy. For in America we are perilously close to raising the image of democracy to a secular from of religion without every really understanding this god that we worships...
...take a dare and be close to danger is difficult in America. Not much more than a hundred years ago one could have wandered through unknown wilderness, chanced upon a few angry Indians and been killed, or run into wild animals to be trampled to death, or have to cross the plains and, running out of supplies, simply die of starvation. The world was an unavoidable challenge. Of the first Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, one half of them died in the first few months, and those who remained began a new experience in which danger was common...
...their individual homes and naturally stifles discussion of the issues either between leader and follower or among the followers themselves. Technology allows the bureaucratic agencies of the government to infiltrate areas of local control, and thus eliminate participation by the people in administering their own power agencies. In the close living quarters of the metropolis the people have found no other effective way of reconstituting a sense of community spirit...
...interaction among the group's members, the enormous energy that therefore is contained in each Airplane venture, the uncanny understanding that each person in the group has of what the others expect him to play. And Williams gives profuse and exact examples of what he means by interaction through close analysis of the songs on After Bathing at Baxter...