Word: rethink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least agree on one thing: Nixon is a poor campaigner whose defects may well become more apparent if he is tempted into the sort of mano a mano "crisis" crusading that he has always professed to be his style. Last week as George McGovern took a brief breather to rethink his campaign strategy and assess his finances, the President defied advice and came out politicking-but only part way. He confined his campaigning to carefully screened groups-ethnics and the Republican faithful. Every step of the way was meticulously planned...
...that "domestic protest in this country reaches a level where Hanoi simply awaits the collapse of our domestic position." And it has by now almost become a truism that the President, if faced with the threat of massive dissent or disruption in the United States, will have to rethink his prosecution of the war. And so we must determine how best to create the domestic situation that will force Nixon to meet our demands...
...does the failure of people to realize the full meaning of technology for the possible and, on valid grounds, desirable, emancipation of women from the socially assigned restriction to being mere wives and mothers... We white men have got to outgrow the lingering superstitions about sex and race, and rethink customs and institutions which are adequate to the dangers and difficulties that technology has produced...
...will not revisit the issue of the CRR's legitimacy in the Harvard community; on that point, few minds are likely to be changed. I do think, however, that the CRR, charged with reviewing allegations of misconduct, has to rethink the manner in which it goes about undertaking that review...
...fact, many of the proposals that White House officials have so casually referred to as neo-isolationist no more deserve that description than does the Nixon Doctrine. First enunciated by the President at Guam in July 1969, it was a major effort to rethink U.S. world policy and lower the American profile abroad. Quite rightly, Historian Manfred Jonas argues that applying the term isolationist to contemporary Senators tends to confuse rather than illuminate their stance. "They earnestly believe that there are limits to America's power," he writes in Isolationism in America, "and that to overstep these limits means...