Word: serious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have charged that President Nixon's statement with regard to the Oct. 15 Moratorium, "Under no circumstances will I be affected whatever by it," was "a serious mistake." This is only true if you warp the intention of a statement obviously made to discourage the Communist leadership in Hanoi. It is indeed ironic that this statement, made to reassure and encourage both our American forces and our South Vietnamese allies dying abroad, should discredit him so with those protesting from the safety of their homes...
...Some serious historians have worried about the parallels between U.S. and Roman history, but Reagan's approach is more polemical than historical. He selected phenomena from several centuries of Roman history and touched up the facts a bit to suit his moral. Reagan really should begin research on Sodom and Gomorrah. Somewhere between the lines he might find that S. and G. flamed out just as soon as the local bureaucrats began to fluoridate the water and teach sex education in the schools...
...round of sessions, lasting perhaps only a few weeks, will concentrate not on real issues but primarily on setting an agenda and other preliminaries. If neither side makes unreasonable demands, substantive bargaining could begin soon afterward. Despite the belated Russian response, Secretary of State William Rogers terms the Soviets "serious" in their desire to negotiate. There is reason to hope, then, that the tedium of setting up ground rules will be kept to a minimum and that the Helsinki talks really signal what Rogers calls "possibly the most important negotiations that we will be involved in." Even partial success could...
Publicly, the factional leaders last week expressed optimism and pledged cooperation-at least through the activities scheduled for Nov. 13, 14 and 15. Yet privately, key participants conceded that a serious split had been narrowly averted and that basic disagreements remained unresolved...
...Making of a Counter Culture must be described as a seminal work. Like any other seminal work, it has flaws, some of them serious-but they don't diminish its singular importance. Visionaries of all sorts have glimpsed the new life that man might lead. Roszak is the first to give us a scrupulously critical celebration of the new life now being made, the emerging counter culture, and to advise us concerning its further creation...