Word: roote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reorganization would go a long way toward improving the Guard's readiness for foreign emergencies. It would not, of course, cut to the heart of the question: state control. In 1903, after disastrous results with the militia in the Spanish-American War, Secretary of War Elihu Root vainly sought to eliminate the states' role and create a reserve of militiamen controlled entirely by the Federal Government. In 1948, a Defense Department committee under Assistant Secretary (and later Secretary) of the Army Gordon Gray urged much the same. There is much to be said for this federalized-militia approach...
...suggestion behind these questions goes to the root of Marshall McLuhan's theory that "the medium is the message." McLuhan, the communications gadfly who wrote The Gutenberg Galaxy and Understanding Media, is the proponent of some slap-happy notions (The "jazz babies" of the 1920s caused the Depression by not caring about work). But his most fascinating idea is that television is a "cool, low-intensity" medium that projects a fuzzy image, compared with "hot" print and film. This means that the TV image demands the viewer's involvement by requiring him to complete the picture himself through...
...Root of the Matter
...Essay about "The Science & Snares of Statistics" [Sept. 8] reminds me of an observation by Sir Josiah Stamp (1880-1941), himself a player of the game: "The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases...
...South China Sea, midway between Saigon and Danang, it is fighting what the Pentagon calls "the intermediate war." That is the layer of the war that lies between the glamorous big-unit battles and the paddy-level process of pacification, and combines a little of both. Its aim: to root the Viet Cong headmen, tax collectors and policemen out of the Binh Dinh villages that they have so long owned...