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Between calls on Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, and Pope Paul VI, Nixon took time out to explain that the formation of the committee was not a formal announcement of his candidacy. "I have made no decision with regard to my own political activities," he said, "and would not make one in the foreseeable future...
...Community-relations programs, including regular meetings with neighborhood committees, to explain police problems and purposes and to hear citizens' grievances...
...administrators, professors, journalists, and MPs--have advanced many theories in the last few weeks to explain the student unrest at the LSE and its apparent national resonance. Some were quick to pick out the "Berkeley-influenced American agitators" who objected to "any kind of authority." Others more intelligently viewed the crisis in the context of Britain's larger problems of higher education. The students themselves saw it both as part of a general social problem, and as a result of specific events...
...apparent contradictions are caused by one basic difference between the West and China. Western man, in the image of Prometheus or Faust, seeks to dominate nature; the Chinese seeks to live in harmony with it. The ideal of harmony-with the universe, with the past, within society-helps to explain China's durability, its long resistance to change, the subordination of the individual to the overall design. Above all, it helps to account for the periodic outbursts of violence in a land that values nonviolence. When society is repressed, when forms are meticulously observed, when balance is sought above...
...lack of analytic thinking helps explain the almost magical power individual words seem to have. In his concept of cheng ming, "the rectification of names," Confucius pointed out that names and terminology must be correct, otherwise "the people do not know to move hand or foot." This idea, suggest Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank in a joint book on Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form...