Word: good
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listen! After the tremendous amount of money, arms, help and good U.S. blood we've poured into that area, if the South Vietnamese were anywhere near united in wanting the war won, it would have been won twice over. If they don't want it won, then what the hell are we doing? Going out looking for a fight...
...arms reduction would be wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's Institute of American Studies, put the issue in perspective: "As long as the U.S.A. has superiority over the U.S.S.R., it is considered that everything is all right. For Americans are sure they are the good guys, intending no harm to anybody. But I assure you that we in the Soviet Union also consider ourselves the good guys and feel not very comfortable if the opponent stubbornly strives for superiority." Just who is trying for nuclear supremacy is of course debatable. But Arbatov's main...
...have found it unthinkable that they might be cast as anyone's bad guys. Today, a sizable enough minority, especially among the young, sees the Establishment-notably the military-as uniformly villainous. It would be helpful for everyone to demythologize his thinking instead of nourishing absolute images of good guys and bad guys. Or better yet, to settle all disputes between the two with Frisbees instead of missiles...
...added that "if a good majority of Lowell House is anxious to do this, then I would be anxious to help them. If this isn't true, however, then perhaps it isn't worth making so much disruption for the sake of a limited number of people for one term...
...question of whether violence ever does any good. Occasionally it does do so, but almost always at the cost of other and equally important goods...