Word: content
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon had been planning a major pronouncement for nearly two months, and had ordered National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger to begin drafting it a week before the new Communist formulation arrived in Paris. That package, which seemed to contain several points of concession, had little effect on the content of Nixon's presentation, but it decided him on form and timing, "He was going to hold the speech in his pocket for a propitious moment," said one assistant. "When the V.C. came along, that was the propitious moment." Originally contemplating a more casual press conference delivery, Nixon instead arranged...
...Curious is the latest in the succession of cruel teasers. Its redeeming social content is a mindless and disjointed commentary on the failures of the welfare state and the resolute conservatism of most people you happen to meet on the street. The level of social probing reminds me of the fist stages of adolescent alienation in suburbia...
...Hotel Majestic, Hanoi's top representative, Le Due Tho, and the Viet Cong's showcase lady, Nguyen Thi Binh, opened for presentation a repackaged set of Communist proposals. In many respects it was the all-too-familiar farrago of impossible demands, but it contained sufficient changes in content and nuance to persuade the U.S. negotiating team that the Communists might finally be ready to talk serious business...
...courses are set up now, the average dexedrined student should be assured of at least a B if he started from scratch the day before the test. In most of the courses that the masses take at this university, he could understand and organize in his mind the entire content of study. It's all a matter of maximizing your efforts...
...really sure how the professors would react to all this. Maybe they would decide there is something wrong with the content of their courses--too much learning what other people's ideas were and not enough making the students capable of dealing with the same kind of thinking these men did. But I honestly can't say that I am sure that's what the lectures should be doing...