Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are signs not of intellectual incisiveness or of moral rigor but only of bureaucratic self-righteousness and too-prolonged insulation from the ever-growing anxieties that Mr. Bundy's ex-colleagues in universities everywhere feel toward the foreign policies that he has helped to shape in recent years. His mind is more rapid than accurate, more facile than profound: for if he did acknowledge a special accountability to the scholars where questions of fact and of truth are concerned, the result might be an improvement in the quality of communications emanating from the White House...
...feeling that intellectuals are not needed but that they are needed too much. Their expertise has been essential in creating the affluent society, and keeping it affluent. The U.S. depends on intellectuals for defense, education, health, city planning, space exploration, the care and feeding of the computer-for the shape, virtually, of its entire environment. The U.S., of course, also depends on them to serve the truth, in the old role of Socratic gadflies. In fact, there are so many different kinds of intellectuals today-the spread between the systems engineer and the literary critic, for example, is so wide...
...conservative, while in France the order remains radical and progressive-spirited. Man for man, the 8,600 U.S. Jesuits probably have less influence than the 261 communications-minded Paulist fathers. With few vocations to bring in new blood, the society in Italy, says one U.S. Jesuit, is in "terrible shape"; he describes the Roman province as a "museum piece...
Aiken described Bundy as "more rapid than accurate, more facile than . . ." He said that the icy tone Bundy's refusal was a sign "of bureaucratic self-righteousness" resulting from prolonged "insulation" from the anxieties that Mr. Bundy's colleagues toward the foreign policies that he has helped shape in recent years...
Sadly enough, not only youth has abandoned Simone de Beauvoir. So has judgment. That brilliant, recalcitrant mind, trained at the Sorbonne and annealed during the French Resistance, cannot accept the shape of the postwar world. When Dienbienphu falls, she exults, although the fallen are Frenchmen. The U.S. is decadent and bent on war. Russia is interested only in world peace, and fills the sky with Sputniks in proof of its military superiority, which will keep the peace. Pope Pius XII dies, and Mile, de Beauvoir, who renounced God at 15, accepts the news "with a certain amount of pleasure...