Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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more so) to America's role as a global policeman. The Center does not actually repress dissident research; it sponsors precious little. But if it is a "free marketplace of ideas" (an interesting phrase in itself), the men who come to market start from such similar premises on the optimal economic system for all mankind, that their work evolves as little more than a synthesis of ideas on facilitating counter-revolution or inflating Gross National Products. The work of the most influential Harvard ideologues is based on assumptions, reinforced and solidified over a lifetime of Americanism, that are irreconcilable with...
...only somewhat better than Nixon's relations with the young. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird admitted to reporters that he had not even been aware that the U.S. had made four, not three air strikes over North Viet Nam. The raids were styled "reinforced protective reaction" ?a phrase which itself represents a style of noncommunication...
...with the House and Senate Armed Services Committees in tight control of congressional action on the Armed Forces, the prospects of even minor reforms-much less the overhaul suggested above-are meagre. Sherill, therefore, wraps up his volume with an appeal to "public opinion." apologizing for using the hackneyed phrase...
...Steering Committee was thereby released from responsibility for the picketing, but the motion included a phrase which made the pickets' decision subject to review at Sunday night's mass meeting...
...university-as-surrogate is for surrogate activists. Their analysis is old, stale, and badly put. To focus on university-government relations empties the phrase "politically organize" of its original significance. University politics is sandlot politics. It is not political, in the immediate or the ultimate sense; it does not pertain to the public sphere of votes and power. Students with a taste for maximum returns would do better to organize the Harvard alumni rather than ineffectual academics...