Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third Step: Contact with and Control of the population...
Ulbricht is unlikely to dismantle the Wall or allow closer contact with West Germany until he feels that East Germans will no longer be tempted by better jobs and living conditions across the border. Now 76, Ulbricht might not be on the scene much longer, but the two men most likely to succeed him, Premier Willi Stoph, 55, and Deputy Party Chief Erich Honecker, 57, are likely to follow the same course. Yet neither Ulbricht nor his heirs can overlook the fact that some day perhaps the Soviets and other East Bloc comrades may become weary of allowing East Germany...
While giving his briefing, the sneaker is often scrutinized by a superior officer, who will dress him down if he does not finish on time, loses eye contact with his audience, or uses slang. Strong men tapped to be briefers for top brass have been known to tremble or vomit before performing, as if they were going into combat. Had he lived to see them, Philosopher William James might have found a new moral equivalent of war in briefings. The same kind of detailed planning goes into them, the same energy; and casualties could be reckoned in terms of those...
Drama is a unique form of literature in that it enables the author to have an emotional contact between his audience and his characters. Miller in effect, negates this power of the theatre by demanding that his audience focus so closely on his theme. I felt compelled throughout the play to try to discover the importance of each line and of each symbol. Esther's repeated comments on the meaning of the play, the symbols in the set, in the gestures, and in the speeches ("The price hasn't changed.") cries out to be noticed. The play did not allow...
...appropriateness of considering this issue. On Thursday I was asked to join a group of about 20 in discussing ways of permitting faculty members who did not wish to participate in such a vote to do so and I agreed. Since then, however, I have had no contact with such a group or any of its members. Consequently, I was surprised to learn that a document proposing a faculty committee on the expression of political opinion and bearing my name was being discussed and published in part in the CRIMSON. Any attempt to institutionalize political discussion in the faculty seems...