Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of "victory" in Viet Nam [Sept. 22] fills me with dread. It would mean a continuation of the absurd philosophy that war can end war, a victory for militarists who would bring peace to mankind by killing him, and a further retreat into our paranoid delusion that we can spread brotherhood and love by filling the world with soldiers and guns...
...Vietnamese, the name means approximately "place of angels." To the 1,200 U.S. Marines guarding it and to Americans watching their ordeal, Con Thien has come to mean something more akin to hell. Since Sept. 1, the outpost, less than two miles from the southern edge of the six-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Viet Nams, has been under relentless bombardment from Communist guns. In one barrage last week, the Communists sent 903 artillery, mortar, rocket and recoilless-rifle shells whistling into the perimeter around Con Thien's three barren, red clay hills-probably the greatest...
...team and is missing two front teeth, but more because he calls up fond memories of the days when giants roamed the Irish loam. Notre Dame's athletic director, Edward ("Moose") Krause calls Hardy "one of the greatest athletes we've ever had here"-no mean compliment considering that Notre Dame has produced the likes of Knute Rockne, Johnny Lujack and the legendary George Gipp. Fans call Hardy Supermick...
THERE IS a good deal of argument these days over the relevance and validity of the Munich analogy. Dean Rusk argues that the loss of South Vietnam might mean the first step toward global, nuclear war just as surely as the Franco-British capitulation to Hitler in 1938 hastened the outbreak of World...
...addressed as much to the future as to the past, inasmuch as all the probabilities are that the present situation will persist for some time, and will continue to demand of us responses which obviously, however, must be somewhat different from those of the immediate past. By this I mean that President Johnson will almost certainly be re-elected in 1968 and that with some modifications, the national government will remain in the hands of persons we would readily identify as the same kind of liberal who has been much in evidence for the past seven years. Moreover...