Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furor demonstrates a typically American paranoia. Americans are repelled by the idea of any government connection with an organization thought private. Upon learning of a connection such as the CIA's with the N.S.A., there is no attempt to find out if the N.S.A. was indeed subverted; guilt by association is assumed...
...Governor Reagan [Feb. 17] is saying that there is a point beyond which you cannot go in asking people to bear the cost of government. While this idea is probably too deep for the comprehension of Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the average voter may be more in favor of Reagan's so-called "unpopular moves" than Schlesinger thinks. VINCENT M. LOVE Manhattan...
...Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are divinely inspired documents of the Creator, and all mankind is the child of God with basic rights," he said. "I have fought to eliminate racial discrimination. I want to be judged on the basis of my actions rather than someone's idea of what the precepts of my faith are." It was a confrontation reminiscent of John Kennedy's with the Greater Houston Ministerial Association in 1960, where Kennedy convinced many skeptical Protestants that a Roman Catholic could be a fair President...
...page) has just taken the following action, or that GOT (the Government of Tanzania, or Turkey, or Transylvania) is about to take the following action, unless USG (backwards for the Government of the United States) does something about it. Sooner or later, the faithful cable reader gets the idea that the governments he reads about in the cables are entities that have an existence of their own, quite apart from the flesh and blood human beings whose continuing quarrels and occasional agreements are dimly reflected in the statements (and the rumors) emanating like so much ectoplasm from the anonymous mouths...
...content of foreign politics that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen to the note after it is slipped through the mail slot in the door. But he cannot be expected to have a really deep understanding of the internal political and economic and social lines of force that converge on the men on the other side...