Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expert in Pacific security problems and the politics of mainland China, Lindbeck was appointed associate director in 1959. At that time Harvard had only one man studying modern China. Now that there are five men on China here, Lindbeck said yesterday, he is leaving to help develop Columbia's program...
...policies of the Kiesinger government, in contrast to the policies of the Adenauer-Erhard era, are motivated by humanitarian, rather than political, considerations. The Kiesinger government does want reunification; but its proposals for negotiations are not primarily aimed at reunification. They are attempts to find ways to help the East German people...
8.Use some foreigners against others, to secure Chinese ends. Thus Chiang Kai-shek has cultivated American supporters of his own military doctrine, and by putting one third of his forces on Quemoy, with American help, he has made the defense of Quemoy probably necessary to the defense of Taiwan. Meanwhile Mao Tse-tung has found a staunch ally against Moscow in the state of Albania...
...McClelland's "Great Game of Absolution and Redemption," a satire on, of all things, Calvinism-a highly successful satire which not so long ago would have gotten him dunked in every pond in Massachusetts. The Puritan game delights in the fact that wherever the player moves, he can't help but fall into sin, McClelland's apt use of the unexpected turns a good idea into a brilliantly funny piece...
...Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, which McLuhan wrote in 1964. Understanding Media is still the best available statement on the relationship between man and media McLuhan provides an explanation for everything imaginable. If you are curious why Kennedy won the presidential election in 1960, then McLuhan can help you out. It was the television debates. Kennedy had the shaggy, low definition look that viewers demand. On television, Kennedy didn't look like a millionaire or a Catholic or a politician. His image seemed blurred and it was easy for the viewer to fill in the dots to suit...