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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each time that Ionesco's hero is forced to offer a basic explanation for some function of the human mind, he can only allege a vague kind of universal intuition. How do we understand the principles of mathematics? "You can't explain it. You understand it by an internal, mathematical reasoning, ou've got it or you haven't." What distinguishes the identical Neo-Spanish languages from each other? "It's an ineffable something... No rule can be given. You must have a flair for it, that's all." How, finally, does it happen that ordinary people are able...

Author: By Randall Conrad, | Title: La Lecon | 5/26/1965 | See Source »

...criticism, and to their sincere belief in the errors of military involvement as a justification for mass protest. No one is about to deny these students their rights. They can wallow in their own naivete as long as they want. But mere disagreement and nonconformism cannot by any means explain the uncontrolled vehemence with which these boorish malcontents voice their objections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...pleased that TIME publicized the text of McGeorge Bundy's "icily" appropriate reply to the incomprehensible invitation to explain the U.S. presence in Viet Nam and to specifically define "who is our enemy." A small minority of professors and placard-carrying students are making a noise far out of proportion to their numbers and importance in opposition to the national aims in Southeast Asia, and are actually playing into the hands of our enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 1965 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Damage Without Conquest." President Johnson never let up in his patient efforts to explain to the U.S., as well as to the Communists, his credo for Viet Nam. In a carefully prepared speech before 150 members of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists in the White House East Room-his tenth foreign policy utterance in two weeks-the President said, "We know, as our adversaries should also know, that there is no purely military solution in sight for either side. We are ready for unconditional discussions. Most of the non-Communist nations of the world favor such unconditional discussions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Confident in His Course | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...Americans, we are constantly faced with the problem of making a choice," Hoffmann explained. In his attempts to explain why gradual withdrawal was the "lesser of two evils," Hoffmann asked "Is defeat more demoralizing than a strategic retreat, especially when...

Author: By Maxine S. Paisner, | Title: Hoffmann, Defense Dept's Ellsberg Disagree on Withdrawal in Vietnam | 5/20/1965 | See Source »

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