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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, there seems to be a process of counter-assimilation (to the extent that a nation's theater and humor are an index of its culture, America is becoming increasingly 'Jewish'). The country is adopting only those strains of Jewish culture that reenforce its own social outlook--substitution of financial concerns for humane ones, the apotheosis of anonymity and conformity--not the traditional respect for scholarship or the attitude toward learning...

Author: By Fred Gardner, | Title: My Mother, My Father and Me | 3/4/1963 | See Source »

...playing fragment--a useful and entertaining tool but quite irrelevant to survival... We over-value the mind--that flimsy collection of learned words and verbal connections; the mind, that system of paranoid delusions with the learned self as center. And we eschew the non-mind, non-game intuitive insight-outlook which is the key to the religious experience, to the love experience." (T. Leary, "How to change behavior," in G.S. Nielsen (Ed.) Clinical psychology: proceedings of the 14th international congress of applied psychology, vol. 4; Copenhagen, 1962.) Whatever its truth, in some sense or other. Leary's estimate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drugs and the University | 2/14/1963 | See Source »

High rates and teeming exceptions are interdependent evils. What tax reformers want to do is attack both evils at once, cutting the rates drastically and simultaneously "broadening the base" by shrinking or abolishing many of the exceptions. On past performance, the outlook for such reform is dim: efforts at revising the income tax code have generally moved in the opposite direction. In 1954, Ways and Means concocted a tax-revision bill that New York Republican Dan Reed, then chairman of the committee, proudly called "the first overall revision of our tax laws which has ever been undertaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Idea on the March | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

...88th Congress "should be a little bit more amenable" to the Kennedy Administration's programs than the last Congress, according to Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government. Beer declared that the President's tax proposals "will probably pass in some form" and that the outlook for the budget--reportedly $99 billion--was fairly good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennedy Wins Rules Committee Fight | 1/10/1963 | See Source »

Responding to a question on foreign policy priorities in the coming year, Bundy emphasized the "major change in the outlook of the Indian people, nation and government" after the Chinese invasion. "This offers great opportunities to us," he maintained, "if we don't try to decide their problems for the Indians...

Author: By Lawrence W. Feinberg, | Title: Bundy Sees Dim Prospects For Agreements | 12/17/1962 | See Source »

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