Word: nonactionable
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Beckett's terrain is the skull; drama's terrain is society. Aristotle defined tragedy as the imitation of an action; Beckett's quasi-tragedies are imitations of nonaction. Drama thrives on characters; Beckett's work contains no characters, only the solitary vagrant thoughts of an agonized...
That omission caused many responsible Southern officials to complain, with considerable justification, that the nation was following a double racial standard: nonaction in the North, stern demands for integration in the South. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who has urged an end to racial discrimination, said that it was "clearly a...
At one point McNamara even skimmed daringly close to saying that the U.S. has no moral or legal obligation to defend such beleaguered regimes as that of South Viet Nam. "Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the U.S. is, should or could be the global gendarme," he said. "The...
Made painfully aware of OAS shortcomings, President John Kennedy said shortly after the abortive 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion: "Let the record show that our restraint is not inexhaustible. Should it ever appear that the inter-American doctrine of noninterference merely conceals or excuses a policy of nonaction-if the...
As Krock of course knows, Ike blamed many of his troubles on Truman policies, and defended his nonaction in certain foreign situations in the name of peace. Truman, for his part, blamed many of his troubles on poor old Herbert Hoover.