Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Enemy. Nixon chose not to deliver a detailed catalogue of policies and programs. His underlying themes were conciliation and equity at home, the quest for peace abroad. "Those who have been left out," he said, "we will try to bring in. Those who have been left behind, we will help to catch up." To foreign friends and adversaries, he extended this hope: "Because the people of the world want peace and the leaders are afraid of war, the times are on the side of peace. Let us take as our goal: Where peace is unknown, to make it welcome. Where...
...nervous breakdown, the U.S. in 1968 erupted in ghastly events: assassinations, black riots, student protests, rising crime. America faced a crisis of pluralism: warring groups and individuals refused to pay the price, whether in money or changed attitudes, that might broaden social justice. A decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur seemed to be ending on the defensive, mired in the sheer effort to keep society from exploding...
...DAYS, Richard M. Nixon will end his 16-year quest for the Presidency. But indications so far are that he has changed only slightly, if at all, in those 16 years...
...moon flight of Apollo 8 shows how that Utopian tomorrow could come about. For this is what Westernized man can do. He will not turn into a passive, contemplative being; he will not drop out and turn off; he will not seek stability and inner peace in the quest for nirvana. Western man is Faust, and if he knows anything at all, he knows how to challenge nature, how to dare against dangerous odds and even against reason. He knows how to reach for the moon...
...Moreover, Nixon insisted during the campaign that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit the Soviets to achieve anything approaching nuclear parity. In the Brookings report, Carl Kaysen, director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, sharply challenges that view, underscoring "the futility of a quest for security" through increasing military strength. Kaysen argues that the theory of "deterrence-plus" -the maintenance of sufficient strength to absorb a Soviet first strike and still be able to devastate the attackers, with a margin of safety added-is passe. A secure second-strike capacity, he insists...