Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former East Asia specialist at the State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson: "Ball felt good, I assume (he had fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness...
Being away from Cambridge this year, I was unable to participate in the Friday, April 11 Faculty meeting on the seizure of University Hall. May I use your columns, therefore, to express my concern over the Faculty's action on that matter...
...wanted my class to express any reactions they had to a group of Sierra Club photographs. Some of the children did some very innovative things; some, though, had no faith or trust in their own inner world or in their powers produce anything uniquely their own. This faith had been taken away by environments which stressed conformity and rigidity rather creativity and spontaneity...
...Because adolescents are impulsive," Ross added, "we must take them seriously when they express suicidal intention in any form...
...Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean-sometimes flying with Russian markings, sometimes with Egyptian. A shorter-range reconnaissance airplane, the TU-16 Badger, until a year aeo made frequent flights down the Pacific coast of Japan to spy on Japanese radar installations; it earned the nickname "Tokyo Express." But since the sort of military information that is secret in Communist countries is often openly available in the West, the Soviet Union generally has an easier espionage chore than...