Word: crux
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough lamentation. This Lampoon is, as I said before, another story. What's to be bitter? It's funny. And now, the palable crux of this innovation: four "distillations" of four Harvard publications. Caustic, sophisticated, sometimes subtle, sometimes slap-stick--honestly, they're just marvelous. A pity that freshmen, whom these parodies are designed to initiate, are unfamiliar with the archetypes, here so unmercifully stripped down to their naked pretensions...
...Crux. One alternative, already suggested by such people as France's Charles de Gaulle, is to neutralize all of Southeast Asia. But U.S. officials would have to do an awful lot of rethinking before they bought that one, for Laos is proof positive of just how badly neutralization can flop. Another possibility is to expand the war to North Viet Nam with bombing raids and guerrilla attacks. That, too, has its pitfalls, for the upshot could be massive Red Chinese intervention, and another Korea. Still a third option is to keep muddling, as the U.S. has been doing...
...crux of the matter is Viet Nam, and U.S. policymakers see precious few glimmers of hope that the situation there will improve. Perhaps the grimmest fact, from the U.S. point of view, is this: Whatever the shortcomings of Ngo Dinh Diem's regime, his ouster and murder have not accomplished the reforms they were supposed to. South Viet Nam's present leader, General Khanh, is trying hard enough to take hold, and in fact, Washington fears that if he were eliminated by a coup or a killer, there would be nobody left to maintain even the semblance...
...that formulated the original program, he explained that he had used the phrase "General Education" because he knew that many scholars felt their discipline provided a liberal education if properly taught, but he thought that few would claim that their field provided a general education. That distinction is the crux of one of the major problems that confronts the Doty committee...
...thesis is a long, complex analysis of the reasons for Britain's slow response to the rearmament of Germany. Its crux is the contention that men like Chamberiain and Baldwin do not carry the principal responsibility for Munich, but, rather, that Munich was caused by deeper forces inherent in democracy and capitalism. These forces Kennedy saw as apathy, concern with profits and security, pacifism, and fear of regimentation...