Word: let
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent coverage of the monetary crisis shows the disastrous effects of fear and confusion. Let us hope Mr. Nixon learns the lesson. He must take positive steps to build a healthy monetary system the first few weeks he is in office. If he resorts to more self-defeating gimmicks, as the present Administration has, we shall likely have the worst recession since...
...river with a transistor, fall touch football up and down Plympton St. Christmas is a big secret that everyone else knows. Maybe you wish everyone else didn't know it so you didn't have to ho-ho-ho your way down Mass Ave person by person. But let me ask you, what else do you have that you could be doing when December comes in to rattle the heat pipes if you didn't have Christmas? I give you December--Yale game already played and won, Thanksgiving swallowed, all the leaves fallen. Without Christmas, where...
...addressed the group on the third night of the talks, he refused to answer questions from the audience. "I have asked our Chairman," he said, "if he would agree to reverse the procedure of you asking me questions, which I would then evade, to one in which you will let me ask you some questions." He then asked, in effect, for the Europeans in the audience to advise him on how to do his new job. For about a half hour, Kissinger, a symbol of American power, sat by the podium and diligently took notes while a German, a Frenchman...
Disciplining the discussion, however, proved far more difficult than seating the host of participants. At the outset, Kaysen warned that he might have to limit speaking time to "let 80 flowers bloom." They bloomed in a vast tangle. On the first day of the discussion--which proved the most productive in many ways--the conversation bounced from the problems of blacks in America, to the problems of big bureaucracy and corporate capitalism. A Czech economist, Eugene Loebl, interjected the problems of youth as a sub-theme, but conversation turned away after an insistent Italian suggested that the American crisis could...
Inviting radicals or more blacks would not have meant solving any more problems, but it would at least have provided a break in the conference style. As it turned out, the most effective and stirring moments usually occurred when someone let down his guard, or when a dispute among conferees reproduced social conflicts in the conference room. The first day, John B. Oakes, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and Roy Innis squared off in a debate over the relative merits of integration and black separatism as solutions to black problems. While the exchange was nothing...