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...walking into the decade as commander in chief of the forces of freedom, John Kennedy is not preoccupied with bombers, carriers or divisions for their own sake. But he is fond of the statement made in 1954 by General Walter Bedell Smith, then Under Secretary of State: "It will be well to remember that diplomacy has rarely been able to gain at the conference table what cannot be gained or held on the battlefield." Says the President: "I'm interested in what our objectives are, not the military struggle." Despite the setbacks in his first major crisis...
...earth-moving machines have bulldozed the landscape, so have the technologists -bulldozed the manscape. Human nature, says Dr. May, has been made the object of control measures, just like any other part of nature. "Keeping busy" for its -own sake has become a neurotic anxiety. While it may allay superficial anxiety, Dr. May holds that it exacerbates the deeper and more pervasive existential anxiety, about being and nonbeing. A do-it-yourselfer in a basement workshop may be too busy watching the guard on his bench saw to worry about traditional causes of anxiety, but at heart he eventually begins...
...success is known "by the company that keeps him." The most significant part of that company is the idea man, the resident genius. Fortunately, the man of genius is both gullible and tractable: "When a success drops back to lend the genius a helping hand-and offers, for the sake of simplicity, to go fifty-fifty for life-it looks an act of unparalleled generosity. It never occurs to the genius that he is entitled to more than 50% of himself. Don't shout at him or utter threats or tell him who's boss; you want your...
...love is out" and so is early marriage ("A taste for home cooking has been the death of many a good man"). Since, in the S-Man's life, "nothing is for its own sake," sex is merely another tactic: "He charges every business relationship with an intangible electricity which others reserve for their most private and most deeply experienced moments. To the success all sexual relations are business and all business relations are sexual...
Tavener vigorously denied any illegitimate aims in the hearings. "The Committee has never engaged in exposure solely for the sake of exposure," he maintained. Seeger was called because he had participated in meetings sponsored by the Communist Party, thereby indicating he might have knowledge about activities the Committee was interested...