Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roadblock to peace. The first part of the problem concerns the Communists: Will they deal with Thieu? They vow that there will never be peace so long as Thieu sits in the presidential palace. This position might change in the course of negotiations, but at present it does not seem likely. When the Communists talk of a coalition, they are not thinking of a coalition with Thieu, because to join one would be to recognize his legitimacy. The second part of the problem involves Thieu's domestic political situation: Will his government be strong and broad enough to unite...
...mistake to conclude that a blind dash must always gain the victory over cautious skill. An unskilled dash would lead not to the destruction of the enemy's forces but our own," he wrote. Now if ever in the war, when peace at last is possible, it would seem to be a time for cautious skill...
There does not seem much left to sacrifice. As it is now constituted, the Post Office is the Government's basket case. There is a 23% average turnover in personnel every year; 85% of all employees are in the five lowest pay grades. Operations are guided by a vast hodgepodge of rules and regulations that fill a 9½lb. volume. The accumulated need for facilities and equipment exceeds $5 billion; yet the proposed construction of any major postal facility usually takes eight to ten years to win congressional approval...
...insensitivity is still evident. The Yearbook photographers are sensationally good on the dismay of the early-morning spectators at University Hall and the excitement of the crowd and participants at the first mass meeting. But they tell almost nothing about what was happening inside University Hall and seem befuddled by radicals, who are caricatured with multiple shots of bullhorn harangues and a particularly clumsy shot of a bearded youth sitting with his feet on the desk in Dean Glimp's office...
...that Harvard is a place where students sit around a lot worrying about not meeting girls (or not meeting boys), pay no attention to the fascinating variety of people passing through and hanging on in Cambridge, regard Faculty only as performers who at their best can make a lecture seem like a seminar, and neither know nor much care what their fellow students are doing. If all this is true, these are bad times for Harvard, but it still seems to me more probable that these are merely the worst of times for the Yearbook...