Word: paule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIGHT & WRONG, by Paul Weiss and Jonathan Weiss. The engaging result of several hours of tape-recorded discussion on ethics between a father and his son attempting to close the generation...
...choice was a Johnsonian sur prise in the best tradition. In the Washington rumor mill, Clifford's name was considered among the least likely of a short list headed by ex-Deputy Defense Secretary and Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze. His quietude and age militated against him for a job that-next to the presidency-is the crudest and most demanding job in Government...
...when polls showed presidential popularity low and dropping, he concluded that there was unrest and a yearning for strong leadership but also an undercurrent of sympathy for the President. Smith Hempstone covered the Middle East war with lyrical intensity, highlighting particularly the plight of the Arab victims. Political Writer Paul Hope showed a keen eye for detail as he followed George Romney around New Hampshire and found some surprising pockets of support for the governor...
Moving to a larger theme, Paul argues that man's contributions "are not to the cosmos as a whole but just to that delimited portion of it within which he lives." Not so, says Jonathan. "I would say that everything I do is done within the context of humanity and also within the context of the cosmos. Humanity and civilization are good for the cosmos...
...Paul sees no warrant for assuming, as his son does, that "the universe starts from some particular point and moves in a definite direction, or that man is contributing to that movement." The universe, he says, is the brute force of nature. "It has no direction or purpose. Direction and purpose derive from men who reflect upon what they have been doing and what they want to attain...