Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that irritates and perplexes Americans is the political caution inherent in a limited war. "It is not civilian control that the intelligent military man objects to," said the army general who ran the World War II Manhattan Project, Leslie Groves, in 1959. "It is the constant interference with the operations necessary to accomplish the missions assigned. The wise housekeeper stays out of the kitchen when the cook is preparing dinner." The grand philosopher of warfare, Prussian General Karl von Clausewitz, approached the question from quite a different perspective. "The subordination of the political point of view to the military...
...Viet Cong. To Americans, who are often troubled by a feeling that "our Vietnamese don't fight as hard as their Vietnamese," the Viet Cong's motivations and methods have long had an aura of mystery and mystique. How and why do they hang on so persistently under constant harassment from bombs and artillery, while their manpower dwindles and their food supplies shrink? A large part of the answer was supplied when the U.S. captured a massive cache of fresh insights into the activities of an exasperatingly stubbon enemy. Last winter and spring. Operations Junction City and Cedar...
...metamorphosis is no more dramatic than the change patients face in leaving the hospital behind to enter the "total environment" of Wellmet. Some are terrified. As Mrs. Carmel says, "They've been out of this world for years." All social contacts are nerve-wracking, and there is the constant threat of regression into old problems. The residents, mostly in their 30's and beyond (but lately younger), usually receive no real therapy, the reasoning being that it's best to leave capped what they have capped. But the house has a psychiatrist and a psychologist as consultants. They come...
...Wellmet, the group tries to make other arrangements for him in a family care home, the city infirmary, or a place for disabled people. A recent resident, a 15-year-old girl, had to be sent back to Met State when the house could not keep up with her constant demands for attention which culminated in a pretense of taking an overdose of pills. But the group hopes to be able to accept her again in the fall...
...Wellmet for a student might seem to be a continual draining. How can a student cope with academic and personal problems when residents intrude on him with requests to hear a poem, to amuse them, to reassure them, to discuss their troubles? What keeps the students going through the constant frictions, the harrassments not only of the residents but also of the other students in the crowded quarters? How can they resist the barrage against their emotions and personalities...