Word: riskless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call for. Senator William Fulbright speaks of neutralization and mutual withdrawal by U.S. and North Vietnamese forces. Senator Eugene McCarthy speaks rather broadly of withdrawing to strongpoints, reducing military operations and trying to negotiate. Such veteran cold warriors as Henry Cabot Lodge and Dean Acheson, arguing that the only riskless settlement is victory on the battlefield, contend that the U.S. should not seek negotiations but do more...
...successes of each performance becoming predictable. Hamlin has relied, as most directors have, on the experienced skill of the same star-studded cast. Last night, the cast acted with the same excellence they've always shown, and I wondered if the use of stars wasn't becoming a riskless formula which Hamlin didn't dare violate. He also relied on what now seems a standard method of concert reading at the Loeb--something a bit more than reading but much less than a full play. Is this too becoming a formula for success...
...This is true because no test can be devised to measure the potentialities of promise in any human being of 17 years. It would have been so easy this year to have admitted and apparently riskless class all from expensive and excellent private schools, all from families of abundant means who would not have called upon our scholarship resources, and all with the 'rough edges of manners' polished off. But such a policy would have betrayed our trust and would have weakened the restless vitality which characterizes any great institution of learning...
Arms controls, Chayes emphasized, "does not necessarily mean total disarmament, at least in its early stages." At the time, he attacked the idea that he present arms race is "riskless." "What we need," he said, "is the least risky combination of weapons and controls...