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...benefits to 25 million people and requires a quarter of a million government employees to administer it. While most Americans would agree that financial help should be given to the unavoidably unemployed, the disabled, the fatherless young and the unsupported old, practically everyone feels that welfare has become a hydra-sustaining many who do not deserve help, breeding incredible bureaucracy and inefficiency and entangling the nation in ideological clashes over just how much aid should go to whom, who should pay for it and how stringent the standards of eligibility should...
...rhetoric Wallenberg deplores comes mainly from a "hydra-headed infrastructure," which he labels the Failure and Guilt Complex. Born in the '60s, Ihe F & G C is not a Freudian concoction but a "loose, unorganized organization" incorporating members of "the Movement," "cause people" and "freelance naysayers" that together "came close lo dominating the intellectual discourse of our time...
...legend of the "vast food-growing potential" [April 8] of the Amazon and Congo basins dies hard. It is a hydra of error, espoused in times past by such luminaries as Walter Lippmann and Richard Nixon...
...large extent, the hydra-like growth of the internal-security apparatus in the U.S. was a result of the wide latitude given the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and other organizations during the height of the cold war. Much has been written about the "secret governments," but less has been said about the easy transfer of espionage techniques from the cold war abroad to the home front. Overseas operations-including even the disruption of lawful governments and a wide repertory of other "dirty tricks"-were perceived as necessary in the worldwide contest posed by aggressive Communism. When...
...administration with Bok's--as was done Thursday night by some of the speakers--is to be seduced by the exaggerations of the moment. Both are, in certain vital respects, unresponsive, but the two can not be convicted of identical crimes. If that is the assumption on which this hydra-headed strike proceeds we may as well resign ourselves to playing the game this Spring and next Spring and --who knows?--maybe even the Spring after that...