Word: givens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major effort to give these movements historical perspective and academic respectability. Feuer largely concentrates on the political consequences of the conflict, not the Oedipally determined struggle of sons against fathers. The element of generational conflict, he contends, has led students to amorality in the choice of political means. Given a set of alternative paths--rational or irrational--for reaching a social goal, student movements will rend toward the most irrational and violent...
...event of nuclear war. Brennan believes that an ABM deployment costing between $10 and $20 billion could reduce casualties from 80 to 120 million to something like 20 to 40 million; a reduction from almost half the population to less than a fifth. He further contends, incontestably, given the urban concentration of American industry and assuming his previous statistics are accurate, that the nation's loss of productive capacity in a nuclear exchange would be reduced by a greater amount. He concludes that the ABM would make the difference between enormous though withstandable losses and the destruction of the United...
...deploying around MosCow. Assuming the CIA is equally efficient in discovering a nationwide deployment of an ABM system by the Soviets, we would not be subject, as General Johnson thinks, to "that Soviet nuclear blackmail we have avoided for the past twenty years." We would "lose" only several months. Given the much greater productive capacity of the U.S. economy, that is a risk we can easily afford to run; in fact, only the most picayune or the most hysterical alarmists would dignify it by calling it a risk...
...Saturday afternoon, the committee rented an entire island in Boston harbor. Party boats ran continually to shuttle celebrants to what was once an old Civil War prison. The outdoor barbecue; free sandwiches and mixer, the large open fields, the myriad of abandoned cells and passageways, and a tour given by Boston's most eccentric historian added yet another dimension to a growing Jubilee tradition...
...extreme nature of the disturbances at Harvard, and recalling no previous such incident at the College, Adams finally connected a cause to these unusual events. Said Adams, drawing up all the venom he had for Andrew Jackson who had defeated and slurred him six years before, and then been given a Harvard degree, "the temper of the age" has affected students to consider themselves "in a standing rather of equality than of subordination to their instructors." It was the new age of equality that Quincy cited as the cause. At least in doing this he fingered a deeper reason...