Word: quests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but, a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. We dare not tempt them with weakness. For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed...
...STRUCTURE. "Our tax system," says Democratic Congressman Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, "has become a house of horrors." The first step in tearing down that house is establishing a climate of public opinion in favor of the wrecking crew. Dedicated in his quest for a balanced budget and a debt reduction, reluctant to rock the fiscal boat, Ike was indifferent to tax reform-and thus never urged it, never recommended to Congress any proposals to remove the inequities in the nation's outdated, piecemeal tax legislation...
With the air of a man who has won a great victory-or would like people to think he has-Fidel Castro turned his guns from the sea and ended the mythical "Yankee invasion" scare. Calling for "a quest of peace" with the new Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed...
Malraux finally recognized the limits of the cult of experience when he defined the writer's task as that of "converting as wide a range of experience as possible into conscious thought." With Hemingway himself, and disciples such as Vailland, the young man's quest has become the old man's folly of endlessly pursuing experience for the mere sake of experience...
...human situation is complicated by another monstrous threat-totalitarian rule, as embodied by Russia: "By one, we lose life; by the other, a life that is worth living." The confrontation of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., each bomb-laden, has led to panaceas, abstractions and frauds in the quest for peace. Peaceful coexistence is one such fraud, according to Jaspers: "Peace never comes from coexistence, only from cooperation." What happens under the formula of coexistence is that "one side is hiding its will to eventual world conquest by coercion, the other its will to world conquest by persuasion...