Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rejected any obligation to suggest how it might be achieved. The fate of the Vietnamese whose lives depend on U.S. protection-well, such human complexities seemed irrelevant. Philosopher Herbert Marcuse brilliantly analyzes flaws in U.S. society, but he prescribes, among other things, a corrective "intolerance" from the left that, some feel, smacks of fascism run by intellectuals. "Absolutized thought," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is the real crime of the intellectuals...
...stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson: "Ball felt good, I assume (he had fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness." Historian Eric Goldman, who left the White House in 1966 after nearly three unhappy years as President Johnson's "intellectual-in-residence," feels that the intellectual must go further than token dissent: "If you disagree with a basic policy of a President and you are working for him, you have two choices...
...city-state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that would run their own schools, garbage collection, police and fire departments. The proposal, argued Mailer, should appeal equally to radicals and to conservatives fed up with overweening government control. "I am asking that the Left and Right blow, each separately, one-half of their minds." The campaign slogan? "No more bull...
...program of Turina, Beethoven and Chopin, Bialoguski had his moments of stiffness, and his technique was limited by the tendency of his left arm to mirror the movements of his right. But even by professional standards, his clear, straightforward performances were adequate; by any other standards, they were remarkable. He got five curtain calls, plus a scattering of cheers from some of his patients, who had rented...
...side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will be used only after a rocket has left the atmosphere, is being test-fired at Jackass Flats, Nev. When perfected, the engines could generate 75,000 Ibs. of thrust with half the fuel that a conventional rocket would...