Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Fifty "ideal" high school seniors compete for a total of $45,000 in scholarships and the Junior Miss title, broadcast live from Mobile...
...Powell's arrogant comments were predictable, Negro reaction back home to Meredith's bid was irrationally hostile. It was as if the uncontested elections of the old Solid South-the kind that kept the Negro down for so long-had become Harlem's ideal of democracy. Negro Author (Manchild in the Promised Land) Claude Brown, an old friend of Meredith, called him "an ass, an absolute ass." Said Jackie Robinson, a Republican and a civil rights moderate: "No self-respecting Negro should have involved himself in this thing." The Amsterdam News, the Negro weekly, bannered: NEGRO REPUBLICANS...
Many of the apparent contradictions are caused by one basic difference between the West and China. Western man, in the image of Prometheus or Faust, seeks to dominate nature; the Chinese seeks to live in harmony with it. The ideal of harmony-with the universe, with the past, within society-helps to explain China's durability, its long resistance to change, the subordination of the individual to the overall design. Above all, it helps to account for the periodic outbursts of violence in a land that values nonviolence. When society is repressed, when forms are meticulously observed, when balance...
...hand, while asking at the same time for a gentlemanly discussion with him. Should he accept the invitation, he has surrendered; this might be honorable for the hitter but not for the other fellow. Accepting the cruel realities of international politics, I don't think this is the ideal way to negotiation. I have some doubts as to how effective the escalation policy is, when applied to the Asian condition...
...Vietnam war is, no doubt, a great misfortune for the Vietnamese themselves, more than for anyone else. The earlier a peace comes, the more happiness they will have. The ideal settlement would be a solution on the principle of self-determination. Realistic reasoning tells us, however, that we can hardly expect an independent Vietnam on that principle without equilibrium first emerging between the U.S. and mainland China. Although this view may not contain any concrete solution to the war, I believe it is nonetheless the objective view of the real meaning of the Vietnam war today...