Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third-Party Hope. Raising the number of U.S.-proposed sites to 15 seemed mainly a ploy to demonstrate that the U.S. was open-minded. North Viet Nam dismissed the four criteria as "absurd and insolent," and termed the lengthened list a "tortuous maneuver" to delay talks. Privately, U.S. officials have...
(11 of 11) noting that the Updikes are the ringleaders of a group of like-minded couples whom the older Ipswichers call the Junior Jet Set. Updike has organized endless basketball, volleyball and touch-football games, led the jet set on skiing trips, and presided over countless intramural parties. Says...
Now the conventional-minded -- and especially the city bureaucrats who would lose control of resources--will point out a hundred problems. They will say the people of Roxbury, like children or underdeveloped countries, need to be brought along slowly to the point where they can help themselves. They will say...
Such an approach might even help American cities get beyond the crisis which threatens to pull conventional-minded leadership into the hands of violence, counter-violence--and the now all too conventional cycle of rebellion, terror and repression
∙TACTICS. ARVN has tended to be defensive-minded, interested only in setting up a perimeter and then sitting back inside it and waiting. ARVN soldiers did little night patrolling, fought the war on a five-day week, with officers whipping off to Saigon for the weekend. In the populous...