Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brief pax in hello-on the ground and in the air-over Christmas and, seven weeks later, during Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Rusk pointedly withheld any promise of an extended unilateral truce. "We ought to distinguish," he added, "between what might happen at Christmas and the idea of a general pause." The Administration maintains that the bombing is essential since it ties down 100,000 North Vietnamese in repair work and disrupts the flow of men and matériel. By contrast, the Communists used last winter's respite to repair facilities, strengthen antiaircraft defenses, and beef...
...idea of a formal excommunication ceremony to isolate Red China dates from the days of Khrushchev, but the new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin let the matter cool when they took power in 1964, hoping to close the rift. One good reason: the Kremlin knew it could not count on the support of its Communist allies, for party bosses had made clear their opposition to a Soviet blackball of any Red nation...
...single group is responsible, Farnsworth said, for what he calls the "fantastically unnecessary problem" about the drugs that exist today. On one hand, the medical profession has encouraged, "perhaps more than it should, the idea that for every unhappiness there is a pill to take." Within this "nation of drug takers," Farnsworth specifically blames "people who should know better, for glamorizing and romanticizing drug taking...
...under his arm over my head;" "rising and making two medium steps, he pushed shut the door;" "touching the strings with his right forefinger." The protagonist, anonymous for 800 words, suddenly and confusingly becomes "Rip Sanson." There is also some pretty unidiomatic dialogue ("'What say to a good idea, Toby?' Rip kidded him") and this is a story so dry and ascetic that the reader must seek his pleasure in the rendering of realistic detail...
Chapman, however, liked the idea, even though he did suggest that a fifth person be admitted into the new body: Timothy S. Mayer '66, president of Harvard G&S. Chapman thought this would make the committee more representative of all undergraduates interested in Harvard theatre. Anderson, Lithgow, Maynard, and Miss Esterman concurred...