Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through some combination of a ceasefire, withdrawal and supervision, the guns will eventually fall silent in Viet Nam. Then will come the infinitely more difficult task of resolving who will rule and how. One set of plans would start at the top, with the formation of a conciliatory central government in Saigon. The National Liberation Front has, of course, its own design for a coalition government representing a broad segment of South Vietnamese society but excluding members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front...
...Pass. Indian loudspeakers kick off daily with news and propaganda in Mandarin Chinese at 5:30 a.m. The Chinese speakers reply in somewhat stilted classical Hindi, which most jawans do not understand, from 6:30 to 11. Then the Indians resume until 1:30 p.m., when both sides fall silent for the rest of the day. Neither side interrupts the other...
Cioran contends that the only common ground between men-believers and nonbelievers alike-is the illogical temptation to exist, to resist the acceptance of nothingness. The difficult duty of man then becomes to combat both his doubts and certitudes, and to hurl himself toward a silent, detached state of unreason. He sees the philosopher's task not as pointing out the truth but rather as showing the way toward freedom through acceptance of futility, the only tenable stance for the conscious man. "After the banality of the abyss, what miracles in being!" Cioran writes. "To exist is a habit...
Last week he promised he would not be silent on "vital foreign and domestic policies." Rather than submerge himself in the vice-presidency, he can seek to carve out his own position in the next four or eight years whether the Democrats win or lose. And he can do it without allying himself now with either Hubert Humphrey, whose policies Bobby Kennedy attacked, or Eugene McCarthy, who is disliked by the clan...
...member of the Silent Generation that came of age in the '50s, Author Crews knows how to cool a hot issue. As a professor of English, he seems to side with Shakespeare: "Youth's a stuff will not endure...