Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diplomatic talents of the canny poet King are as cool as his mile-high capital of Katmandu. He has not only managed to keep his landlocked, Wisconsin-size nation from being swallowed up by its giant neighbors but has turned Nepal into a highly profitable "neutral cockpit"-as admiring diplomats call it-by letting all the world's great rivals pay handsomely for his friendship. The Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce...
...Harvard cool-liberalism means the good old basic beliefs in equality and civil rights. It also means what Daniel P. Moynihan calls "the politics of stability," a fundamental belief in the order. Finally, it means non-involvement, an aloofness from politics...
...those who were listening, listening to the war get worse and to the repression of demonstration get more brutal, the time for the choice was zooming in very fast. Sitting on the sidelines, being cool-liberal and dispassionate was becoming irrelevant. The theme that the Washington demonstrators harped on was: if you're not with us you're against...
...even more important is the position of the cool-liberal Harvard student. He is being left in the dust. If he wants to be relevant, he has to join the movement. The frustration will grow and grow. To be against the people who sat in at the Pentagon is to be against morality and equality and justice--things the cool-liberal has always supported. But worse, to be against the people who sat in at the Pentagon is to be for Lyndon Johnson, at best, and maybe Ronald Reagan at worst...
Robert Strange McNamara is somewhat the epitome of the University cool-liberal. He went to Berkeley and then to Harvard. He taught at Ann Arbor. He recites Yeats. He led a movement to abolish ROTC as a student. He is well-to-do. He has a computer-brain. He is cool and aloof. Robert Strange McNamara, the Secretary of Defense, was looking out of the window of his Pentagon office, watching the confrontation below last Saturday. Maybe he was wondering what his liberal brain was thinking...