Word: responded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threat of a second war front in Asia-one which the U.S., hard pressed in Viet Nam, can scarcely afford. Apart from fueling anti-American polemics from Paris to Pyongyang, the incident raised grave questions in the West about the Johnson Administration's ability to prevent or respond effectively to Communist military initiatives in Southeast Asia or beyond...
...culture as usual, and it is now imperative that the Administration understand that its intemperate and irresponsible policy has gone too far. If our elementary concepts of human decency merit us the bizarre label of idealists, then we must make the most of it. We must respond in the only way President Pusey seems to understand--in the pocketbook...
...desire to become a Russian satellite. In fact, Nasser and some other leaders would like to find a saving formula by which they could re-establish relations with the U.S. and thus resume their balancing act between Russians and Americans. Washington has so far seen fit not to respond to such hints, but the time must come when, if it does not want the Russians to tighten their hold on Arabia irretrievably, the U.S. must try to restore American influence in the area...
...down for several hours of vigorous tape-recorded discussions of ethics. Occasionally the exchange gets rough ("I think what you said is outrageous." "Why, that's crazy! That's absurd"). But the vehemence only testifies to the fact that the men involved think and feel deeply. They respond to each other from positions of strength and conviction. Paul Weiss, 66, is Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale, founder and longtime editor of the Review of Metaphysics; he ranks among the leading speculative philosophers in the U.S. His son Jonathan, 28, is a pragmatic attorney and social activist...
...poll or survey is selection. The essence of a questionnaire is voluntary response. This was a questionnaire, answered by those seniors, and only those seniors, who so wished. The questionnaire sought to discover the extent of potential draft resistance among seniors, but more than half the class did not respond. Into what category are these non-responders likely to fall? Can anyone doubt that it will be into the category of those not sufficiently hostile to the war and the draft to fill out the document? Or, to put it another way, is it likely that anyone who does feel...