Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a summer and autumn of gloom and despair, the ugly American has almost completely lost confidence in his ability to distill meaning from world affairs. His nation stumbles through the wilderness to cope with crisis succeeding crisis, to preserve a makeshift peace. It is no wonder then, that he has become disenchanted with the symbols that have traditionally expressed his unspoiled optimism: tolerance, dignity of man, democracy...
...power game, Bowles believes that a nation must acknowledge its own limitations to exert power and recognize that firmness is not in itself a policy but a part of a policy. Expending force in a moral vacuum is like chasing butteries in the jungle: you soon stumble in your haste to capture an ever elusive object. In the power game, furthermore, the rules require those players whose stakes are only power to play with partners who likewise seek or possess power. And this leads to the United States' forming alliances with reactionary, undemocratic governments whose position of authority is supported...
...somewhat tempered: "The thrust toward World War III is not a plot on the part of the elite, either that of the U.S.A. or of the U.S.S.R." But "Military necessity . . . has become a cover term by which those who proclaim and who decide in the name of the nation hide their incompetence and their irresponsibility. The only realistic military view is the view that war, and not Russia is the enemy...
...declining rate of income in relation to rising costs of operation makes the University's position as the nation's most highly endowed institution somewhat deceptive, a Boston Fund report on U.S. colleges and universities revealed yesterday...
Dickey asserted that subsidized tuitions, particularly in public colleges, will damage the nation's educational system. Too much tax money will be spent unnecessarily on college subsidies, while vital elementary and secondary school systems become poorer...