Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon also pushed ahead with a quest for "brains, judgment, creativity and youth" to fill some 2,000 secondary jobs. His transition headquarters in Manhattan and Washington are dispatching more than 75,000 letters to university presidents, business leaders and foundation heads soliciting nominations for such posts. Replies will be screened, then the information will be transcribed on tape for storage in Government computers. But Nixon Adviser John Ehrlichman was quick to assure: "Computers won't be picking people-people will be picking people." Ehrlichman added that no special effort will be made to recruit members of minority races...
...mere puppet of the Americans. President Thieu's defiant holdout provided an unexpected confirmation that the U.S. has indeed been at least partially successful in those objectives in Viet Nam. The impasse, as Washington saw it, constituted an untimely assertion of nationalism by Saigon, making the U.S. quest for peace far more difficult...
...feel that I've got to keep up the premiums, just in case. Second, I still feel that the church has a tremendous capacity to do good, if it can only orient itself to this era of history. It could be a positive factor in mankind's quest for survival. That's why I'm a little more patient with what seems at times to be a 13th century operation...
...deceitful divinity has traced the signs of hope or redemption. Between this sky and the faces turned toward it there is nothing on which to hang a mythology, a literature, an ethic, or a religion-only stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch." However, Camus' quest for a lucid, objective ethic for man never allowed him more than a temporary relief in the stones, flesh and stars of touchable truths...
Surely no scholar worth his salt would give a minute's notice to assisting these critics of Social Sciences 5 in their quest. And as a member of the teaching staff of the course in question I can assure Ernest Wilson and his Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students that the staff is indeed worth its salt. Martin Kllson Assistant Professor of Government