Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These confusions were at least partially resolved in the extraordinary view of power in United States society which permeated Gardner's three lectures. Here he was explicit: we should stop abusing political leaders and the military-industrial complex and admit that "perhaps no one is in charge." And in the first lecture he commented ominously, "Only those who know the Federal Government very well indeed know how disinclined it is to think in the largest terms about the nation's future." Right or wrong, the theory is an ingenious one, and like much of Gardner's writing it rings with...
After playing on the Georgia hard courts, Harvard had some difficulty readjusting to the clay courts at Clemson College, their next stop. The Crimson was overpowered...
...extend the boundaries of its own experience as far as it wants to. We keep it inside all the time except when it is "taken for a walk." We feed it when we remember to or when we get back home. We tell it to shut up and stop running around whenever it's around...
...most ominous potential of any centralized regulation, of course, lies in its possible abuse. Overzealous but underimaginative censors might not stop at snipping out broads and brawls but might press on to new frontiers of blandness. Legitimate controversy or merely inconvenient opinion aired on television would also fall under the censor's watchful eye. "What is proposed," says Leonard Freeman, producer of CBS's Hawaii Five-O, "is Orwellian in its prospect. We are now overly cautious; the result is a vacuum years behind the audience...
Assassination also became part of the game. Russian exile groups in West Germany, particularly the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), worked actively to overthrow the Soviet government. To stop them, a Russian KGB spy named Bogdan Stashinsky was sent to murder Ukrainian Exile Leader Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet, the editor of an anti-Soviet newspaper. Using a cyanide pistol, Stashinsky was successful in both cases. Hired killers are not among the world's most attractive people. Yet Stashinsky emerges as a tragic figure. A brilliant young scholar, he was blackmailed into murder by the KGB. Later, driven...