Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor of international relations at Howard University who has known Viet Nam since 1953, Fall says-correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford. In fact, U.S. military planners considered both conventional and nuclear bombing attacks and warned the Administration that, if the nation intervened, the Air Force should be free to use whatever weapons were needed; no decision on this was made. Fall writes that planning...
...initiation and sustenance of social change. Its purpose is to institutionalize social change when it occurs--to legitimize the new order. It is somewhat naive, as the leaders of the War on Poverty have by now recognized, to expect a government body which rests on consensus to foster social change. As Moynihan himself says, "A quest for peace of this kind gives maximum leverage to the group with the most intransigent and assertive opinions, and the greatest ideological discipline" -- or, simply, the group with the most power. The problem for the Negro, specifically the lower-class Negro, is the gaining...
After a ten-month legal battle, Mr. and Mrs. Michale T. Liuni, of Tillson, N.Y., last week adopted a 4½-year-old Beth, their foster child since infancy. The local welfare commissioner had sought to place the girl elsewhere, largely because of the Liunis' age (both are 48), income ($8,900) and the fact that, while they are dark-eyed and swarthy Italian-Americans, Beth is a blue-eyed blonde. Not surprisingly, a county court overruled the commissioner, but the national publicity that surrounded the case gave a falsely bleak picture of the state of adoptions...
...bruising realities. He bluntly tells them the truth of things, and in one way or another kills the family he hoped to cure. A cynically humane doctor tells him of another cure: "I try to discover the basic lie, the pet illusion, that makes life possible, and then I foster...
While at Harvard, the Institute asso- ciates--prominent men in public life--have met with students and Faculty members almost exclusively in private meetings. This practice, intended by the Institute to foster better understanding between scholars and government officials, has been a bone of contention with...