Word: stops
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Your Essay did a thorough job of covering a touchy subject which most people would rather not even think about, let alone discuss. But more important, you did not stop at a mere examination of the topic. What impressed me was your smashingly direct last paragraph. It seems to me that the word compassion is often misunderstood when used in connection with such problems as the subject of your Essay, or the criminal, or the rebellious teenager. You have cleaned the air with words...
Retorted Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair man Earle G. Wheeler: "If you stop bombing North Viet Nam, in effect you throw one of your blue chips for negotiation over your shoulder...
...less predictable argument was advanced by retired Army General (and ex-Ambassador to France) James M. Gavin. In a letter to Harper's Magazine, Gavin volunteered his "military-technical" judgment that the U.S. should stop bombing North Viet Nam and limit its military commitment on the ground to holding several "enclaves on the coast." This strategy struck Pentagon officials as militarily unsound, because it would allow the Communists to build their forces virtually unhampered, and as politically naive, because the U.S. presence in South Viet Nam would thus resemble a colonialist role...
...know her better say that she is merely shy. "If Indira seems curt," says a friend, "it is because she doesn't waste time talking rubbish." Says another: "She's been a lonely person all her life, and now she will be lonelier than ever. All the troubles will stop at her desk, and she is fully aware...
...Loeb Drama Center may stop inviting reviewers from the Boston Herald to Harvard theatrical productions, Douglas Schwalbe, publicity director of the Loeb, said yesterday...