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...mass production could conceivably push the price down to a fraction of that and eventually lead to TV sets with built-in EVR units. "EVR will make education as compelling as TV entertainment," Goldmark insists. He points out that with EVR, a backwoods teacher could become an educational paragon, ordering lectures by Robert Lowell on poetry, by Zino Francescatti on the violin, by the President of the U.S. on politics...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY, by Robert S. McNamara. A wide-ranging collection of speeches and reports by the paragon of the Pentagon, whose concern for the world belies the myth that he is narrow and insensitive. The outstanding omission: discussion of the Viet...
Mexican Standoff. And yet, what too many of his critics have failed to see is that this paragon late of the Pentagon is far from being narrow or insensitive. He can stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long...
Despite all the striving for freshness, the New Politics of '68 is really more a matter of style than substance. Eugene McCarthy, who seems a paragon of the New Politics-challenging his party's Establishment, rallying the forces of dissent-is paradoxically conservative in many ways. The wry, witty Minnesotan, like Rockefeller and Nixon, would emphasize state and local responsibilities over federal control, and decentralize the office of the presidency, delegating many more duties to the Cabinet. Indeed, even his antiwar stand links aspects of conservatism with liberalism, appealing to residual isolationist sentiment on the right...