Word: neatness
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...happen when the Pentagon brass realize they do not have to fool around with numbers anymore, because all of assudden they have the boys back in uniform. MacNamara and Bundy may be gone, but no one has to tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff what to do with their neat battle plans and shiny weapon systems. They already know that war is good business; they are just waiting for everyone else to agree with them again...
...goes, with middle-class students swelling the ranks of ROTC, with increasingly loud murmurs emanating from the corpse that was the Selective Service System, and with the Pentagon's computers humming and clicking along, playing a neat counterpoint in the background. Of course, not everyone agrees with what is going on: at Georgetown University, for instance, the Rev. Richard T. McSorley, professor of theology, still demonstrates alone against the school's ROTC program. Decrying what he calls the army's attempt "to 'psychologize' students into accepting militarism," McSorely marches alone every week in front of the school's main library...
...manual specifies, for example, that an apartment or house to be rented or bought must be "'modest, clean, neat and completely furnished. It must appear from the outside as a decent house−curtains, an entrance light, a doormat and a nameplate." It should be situated on a street where it is "easy for a militant to keep watch over and to observe any police surveillance: that is, if possible, it should not be near bars, public buildings, shops, institutes, warehouses, etc." Purchases of food and other necessities should be made far away from the neighborhood of the hideout...
...effortlessly perfect. "The job that Paul has given me is to set the stage for the life he moves in," she says. But for fear that perfection would itself be an imperfection, Bunny carries with her a pair of scissors, notes Capote. "When things are looking a little too neat, she takes a little snip out of a chair or something so that it will have that lived-in look...
...Pieces of Life, a book that alternates short stories with autobiographical essays, Mark Schorer attacks the scramble for a guaranteed future, but with arguments we have heard before. Cautiously, each character in the short stories plans a neat life for himself, one which will allow him to live in as irresponsible and "dignified" a fashion as possible. For Schorer, the order and self-centeredness of wealthy middle class life makes it so impersonal and unrewrading by denying man's basic need for communication...