Word: essays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter of fact, I hope this article may cause you to re-evaluate the statement in your Essay, "How to Cut the U.S. Budget" [Dec. 8], that "ripe for reduction is the $600 million yearly subsidy to the aged, ailing merchant marine." This earlier statement fails to recognize that in its broadest sense, seapower is the ability of a nation to project into the world ocean in times of peace, its national sovereignty; in times of war, its military might...
...Your Essay on "Limits of U.S. Power" [Feb. 16] is commendable for urging discretion in the use of force. It failed to mention, however, that reliance on force requires superior force, and that in the test of battle no nation is apt to choose defeat without resorting to its maximum weapons. Therefore, deterrence appears plausible during peace, but once conflict begins, reliance on force ultimately provides no outcome other than ignominious defeat, unrelenting stalemate, or nuclear immolation. The nature of war has changed, and futility of the method rather than discretion in its use would have been a truer message...
...Essay helps all readers to extricate themselves from a bog of frustration into a more healthy understanding of the power play. Our spines can stiffen a little as we realize that our leaders can better flash the image of a nation prepared to take care of itself with the vast majority of patriotic Americans making themselves seen and heard behind our leaders. May they guess right much of the time, stand acknowledged all of the time...
...view are nine oils by Lowell Nesbitt, 34, one of the nation's most highly regarded younger painters. His subject matter: the interiors of six studios belonging to other artists. By meticulously representing their working environments, Nesbitt functions as a reporter; in effect, he achieves a visual essay on how the contemporary artist lives, thinks and works...
Lichtheim's comments on German history, then, will serve as a nice demonstration of his fundamental idealism. "The basic fact about German history since the eighteenth century," we are told, "has been the failure of the Enlightenment to take root." Why did it fail to thrive? In an essay entitled "The European Civil War," we learn that "national attitudes in the three countries [France, Germany and Italy] were different, and that the difference went back to the impact of the French Revolution." This is some help, but not much, for we now want to know what factors determined the reception...