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...only we can count all railroad ties and piglets in a country we shall know what it is. "Numerology" is what he calls the most zealous, usually American, attempts to demonstrate wie es eigentlich gewesen war. Not surprisingly there are those who consider his views of the past fruitless or even anarchic...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Alan Heimert: The 'Idea' at Eliot House | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Calkins is a man who likes to get things done--in the most immediately efficient was possible. He finds the vulnerable chink in the problem he wants to solve, and he begins his attack there. If the attack is fruitless he moves elsewhere. He does not ram his head into the wall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hugh Calkins | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach uphold the older view. "It is China's position that is inflexible-not ours," he says. "Our relations are not bad because of something we are not doing." Says John Gronouski, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Poland and a veteran of fruitless talks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: RETHINKING U.S. CHINA POLICY | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Calkins is a man who likes to get things done--in the most immediately efficient way possible. He finds the vulnerable chink in the problem he wants to solve, and he begins his attack there. If the attack is fruitless he moves elsewhere. He does not ram his head into the wall...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Calkins Saga -- A Second Chapter | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...original University Hall action did not backfire precisely because the long debate on ROTC that had been going on all year had effectively created latent support for the SDS position, which very quickly became active support once the cops had been and gone. The long period of fruitless knocking at the doors of established channels that SDS had to go through all fall turned out to have been absolutely necessary. We all knew that political education was a slow process but it seems, surprisingly, that time is the crucial input. That this is so is shown by the fact that...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: There's No Point Fighting to Lose | 4/23/1969 | See Source »

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