Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom the President last week named assistant commandant-has been criticized, unjustly, for not being aggressive enough during his two years as the Marine commander in Viet Nam. Krulak, a favorite of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and President Kennedy, has earned enemies with a tongue that is as sharp as his mind...
Like the Supreme Court, however, good parents draw a sharp line between free speech and illegal conduct. Author-Psychologist Haim G. Ginott, author of the currently much-discussed Between Parent and Child, argues that "most discipline problems consist of two parts: angry feelings and angry acts. Each part has to be handled differently. Feelings have to be identified and expressed; acts may have to be limited and redirected." How and when to set limits depends partly on the child's age. Nothing makes a small child more anxious than being asked if he "wants" to do this or that...
...Longer Safe. On a visit to Malaysia, the commander in chief of U.S. military forces in the Pacific, Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, said that Communist casualties increased 50% this year over 1966. "The enemy can no longer feel safe in much of South Viet Nam," said the admiral, adding: "I do not want to overstate our gains. The Communist forces in South Viet Nam retain a dangerous capability for terrorism and guerrilla warfare." Just how unsafe some Viet Cong feel was demonstrated last week. A platoon of Viet Cong, 38 strong, defected and turned themselves in to some startled...
Brazil's Catholic Church has never, as a whole, been known for opposition to the government. Some members of the church's liberal wing have split off from the rest of the clergy and, in defiance of stiff laws, helped organize labor syndicates, defended student rights and sharp ened public feeling against the country's army. But last week the Brazilian clergy, liberal and conservative alike, angrily rose up in unison. It issued a warning that it would take no nonsense from the army and, moreover, that it intended to exert its influence on the course...
Excess of Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick-and-mortar bureaucratic conformists and too few spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have...