Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Critics: "As far as the critics of the Viet Nam situation are concerned, I must grant to them the same sincerity that I reserve for myself. Now as to the extent of their information, I think that that varies. I'm just not in a position to know how much information each critic of my policy in Viet Nam happens to have. I might say that it seems obvious to me that some of them do need more information some times, because when they make suggestions following the course of action that we've just completed, it makes...
...occasionally criticized, of course, on matters of style and policy. Monro's habit of thinking out loud often gave his conversation the appearance of false starts and long windedness. He is not a scholar or logician. His style is to punch ideas around, not cut them apart. He was often his most severe critic, admitting mistakes readily--as, for example, on his decision to release class ranks to draft boards without consulting students. But he was not often wrong, and he won the respect of Faculty as well as students...
...Frequent Critic. A provocative commentator who loved to argue his viewpoints-and sometimes irritated others by pushing them too aggressively-Fall was respected for his courage and knowledge even by those who disagreed with him. Established in the front rank of Viet Nam experts, he was heard-if not always heeded-by official Washington, and frequently lectured at the National War College. A difficult and sometimes irascible man, he could not abide experts who did not do their homework, or those who saw the complicated struggle in black and white. He disdained anyone who pontificated about the war without getting...
...frequent critic of aspects...
MacBird! by Barbara Garson has been awaited with all the fierce anticipatory noises surrounding a tumbrel arriving at the guillotine. Long before the play's off-Broadway opening last week, an honor guard of coterie intellectuals, including Critic Dwight Macdonald and Yale Drama School Dean Robert Brustein, went into tub-thumping ecstasy over MacBird, which promised a dramatic severing of President Johnson's head. In addition, it capitalized emotionally on a winter of public discontent with L.B.J.-the poll-recorded loss of favor with the electorate, the supposed credibility gap, concern about Viet Nam, Johnson's embroilment...