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These problems led Tillich to conclude that there is a definite limit to hope for peace on earth as prescribed by Pope John. Men must "distinguish between genuine hope and Utopian expectations." Genuine hope is found in such factors as the atomic threat that has imposed on mankind a common destiny, the conquest of space that makes neighbors of distant nations, international cooperation in science and medicine...
...would be foolish to suggest that Ho Chi Minh is still America's friend, but the rigidity of 1945-46 reveals the failure of the "hard-nosed" military strategists to distinguish one communist from the next. Instead of using the splits in the Communist bloc to weaken and contain China, the recent air strikes against North Vietnam seem calculated to bring Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow closer together. The Administration must begin to develop a new diplomacy toward emerging nations, which may have socialist or communist systems, but which can have friendly relations with the United States. Such a policy would...
Failing to define a General Education course, the Proposal cannot properly distinguish between such a course and a departmental course. Though the report acknowledges, in passing, that General Education courses "are more frequently broad and self-contained than departmental courses," the mechanics of the proposed program system permit the canny and uninterested student to bypass completely the demands, and rewards, of the General Education program. This represents "liberalization" at its worst...
Objections can be raised to each of these proposals. Under A, although it avoids the difficulty of having to distinguish strictly between General Education and departmental courses, students might include some very narrow departmental courses in their General Education programs. B is sure to be arbitrary and hard to administer, assuming that a decision has to be made on every course in the Catalogue. C accepts in principle that General Education courses are distinctive and superior to departmental courses. D, in addition to the problems of B, allows only as an exception a type of program which for many students...
...from the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan and other extremist groups." And equally predictably, the Society had to pay homage one sentence later to the fact that the Republican party is still the party of conservatives: "At the same time all Republican spokesmen would do well to distinguish clearly and publicly between irrational and irresponsible extremist elements and the millions of radonal, responsible and traditional conservatives who comprise a large segment of Republican voting strength...