Word: stage
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Department and White House, writes that in the internal Government debate over Viet Nam, "doubters and dissenters were effectively neutralized by a subtle dynamic: the domestication of dissenters." As soon as former Under Secretary of State George Ball began to express doubts, he was "warmly institutionalized." At each stage of the war's escalation, he was invited to express his dissent. Concludes Thomson: "Ball felt good, I assume (he had fought for righteousness); the others felt good (they had given a full hearing to the dovish opposition), and there was minimal unpleasantness." Historian Eric Goldman, who left...
Such men inspire hope that the next stage in intellectual history will be a renewed sense of wholeness and the unity of knowledge. The time has come for intellectuals to study and teach that vision. What they should remember, though, is their own tendency to hope more innocently and despair more deeply than others. Flaubert had some good advice for intellectuals of every stripe: "By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming idiotic oneself." That risk is unusually high among today's divided intellectuals; perhaps if they lowered their own idiocy level, the rest...
...landings at airfields instead of in the ocean. Eventually, Administrator Paine also hopes to cut the cost of putting a pound into earth orbit from the current $500 to $50. To help achieve this breakthrough, NASA has three different rockets on its drawing boards: Tri-Maran (a reusable three-stage booster whose stages are mounted side by side instead of atop each other); Dixie Cup (with a low-cost, discardable, solid-fuel first stage), and the Big Dumb Booster (so called because it has neither guidance equipment nor complicated fuel pumps and plumbing). A Nerva nuclear engine, which will...
...children. But 1,600 or so will die before their first birthday-an annual total of 80,000. Anxious to reduce that toll, the Federal Government's National Institute of Child Health and Human Development chose last week-when baby-food manufacturers were celebrating National Baby Week-to stage an Atlantic City seminar with the somber title "Why Babies...
...rose to stardom in the 1947 production of Finian's Rainbow; of cancer; in Burlingame, Calif. Broadway lit up the instant Ella sang How Are Things in Glocca Morra?, but success was a long time coming-32 years-from the day she toddled on to a Paisley, Scotland, stage to pipe Roamin' in the Gloamin' at the age of two. Besides Finian, she did Sons o' Fun and George White's Scandals, then went on to movies and TV until her semi-retirement in the 1950s...