Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left Bank apartment under the surveillance of a cageful of doves, Lamorisse at 38 fits the description once given him as "a man continually on vacation." The son of a well-to-do family of Flemish descent, he did poorly in school, never considered any work worthy of serious pursuit until he discovered film making. He still writes and edits his films in his living room, with the help of his wife and within earshot of Pascal and his other two children...
...think that it helps to ease international tensions, no matter if it graphically presents an essential truth. Furthermore, I seriously question your judgment when you say, "Khrushchev was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power." Would it be petty if Russia set up its technicians in Cuba, made it a real base of subversive activity in the Americas? Would it be petty if Khrushchev could persuade Castro to attack Guantanamo, and possibly substitute Russian ships and planes for ours at that base...
...ideological lenses. The Afro-Asians were scrupulously neutral. Khrushchev, having put himself in opposition not only to the West but to the U.N. and its leadership, was reduced to chumming around with Cuba's Fidel Castro, and such enthusiastic courtship of Castro seemed a petty pursuit for so great a power. (Even Communist satellite chieftains resented Khrushchev's paying more attention to Fidel than to themselves...
...practical strategy which represent neither surrender to Communism nor wishful fantasy, since no country courageous and rational enough to thus disarm would be an easy victory for any form of dictatorship. We risk a great deal in reliance on nuclear arms: we must be willing to take risks in pursuit of peace...
...large society will contain fanatics who are willing to kill people in pursuit of absolutist aims or our of sheer, if well-rationalized, destructiveness. But most of the men who are involved in the policy of deterrence are neither fanatics nor personally destructive. We must therefore ask why so many of them are either blind to where their actions lead or cynical about it--even despairing--or lacking in the imagination to contemplate consequences and possibilities. In our judgment, the continued acceptance of deterrence as the basis of defense reflects a deep malaise from which, in varying forms and degrees...