Word: learnedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: How can the people of this country so easily forget what happened in Korea? There is a definite lesson to be learned there before we enter peace talks with the North Vietnamese. Many urge that we begin negotiations immediately, wherever they be held. In Korea, the conference site was...
The latest worldwide wave of student activism started in the U.S. several years ago, partly as a demand for more freedom and power of decision on campuses. It was stimulated by two larger emotional issues. The first was civil rights. In their demonstrations in the early 1960s, U.S. students discovered...
Both the students and the elders have some other lessons to be learned. What is needed most of all is more mutual respect. The student activists are more critical than constructive. They often have no immediate, practical answers for the problems that they expose-but older people should not lightly...
For their part, the students might recognize that they do not have a monopoly on idealism. After all, the drives against poverty and racism in the U.S. were energized not by them but by their elders. It would also profit the students to recognize the temporary nature of their power...
Galloping Elegance. Now, at 50, "Woody" Broun has settled into a comfortable niche that takes advantage of his talents as actor, writer and learned wit. He is the "sports essayist" on CBS's Saturday Evening News, and compared with the breathless, cliche-riddled attack of the athletes-turned-commentators...