Word: se
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's issue, in addition to our European correspondents, we have been hearing extensively from our roving White House correspond; ent, Hugh Sidey, following Seán Ó Cinnéide around Germany and Ireland. And across the grey border of Berlin was TIME'S Moscow Correspondent Israel Shenker, who found himself unexpectedly invited by the East German government to watch Nikita Khrushchev appear on his own side of the Berlin Wall. Shenkers trip from Moscow to East Berlin was no ad for either German or Communist efficiency-the Communist airline officials lost his typewriter; the East...
...Kennedy's sentimental journey in Ireland lasted at least 24 hours too long. By the time he left, the whole business had begun to get a little boring. At week's end, as he flew over the Irish Sea on his way to England, even Seán Ó Cinnéide may have looked forward to a change of pace. There he began quiet talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who would surely welcome a chance to get his mind on something other than his own government's troubles...
...controlling elites in all underdeveloped countries share "arrogance and a faith in logic and order per se," White continued. They believe the human mind can solve anything, and it is therefore difficult to explain to them the allowances which Western society makes for errors and for mercy. Their logic "requires a discipline which controls all the way down to the grassroots...
...final analysis, the argument for American and African unity rests on the undemonstrable--and perhaps slightly paranoid--act of pure faith which asserts a priori that whites and Negroes per se cannot understand one another nor collaborate in an atmosphere of equality and mutual respect. One thing is certain: the surest way to prevent equality is to convince everyone of such a thesis. Paranoid presuppositions rapidly become self-fulfilling prophecies. The ideal of equality is not refuted, it is merely rendered historically impossible by ideologies which generate racial distrust...
...Sibley Commission succeeded in changing public opinion, said Galphin, because it posed the question as a choice between open or closed schools instead of segregation or integration. No one favored closed schools, Galphin said, although many failed to understand the question and responded by flatly declaring, "I'se for segregation...