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...South. They might get as much as 25% of the vote in a free election in the South if it were held today. In any future Parliament, Communists will be a major bloc. They will sometimes cooperate with opponents, often act as a disruptive force, and always strive to exploit any advantage that would help them to win ultimate control of the government. But that does not mean an imminent takeover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The Future of Viet Nam | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

...High taxes, higher prices, high unemployment- these are the pocketbook problems that the voters are talking about. To solve the problems, Richard Nixon and George McGovern are presenting not just contrasting programs but fundamentally different visions of what American society should be like. In a second Administration, Nixon would strive for economic stability above all else and seek to interfere as little as possible price private enterprise, aside from maintaining wage and price controls for a while. A McGovern Administration would take an activist lead in aiming to redistribute income and wealth more equitably among all citizens. That philosophical dispute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '72: Nixon v. McGovern on Taxes, Prices, Jobs | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

Furthermore, "women who are motivated to strive for high positions may be more concerned with personal prestige, security, and income, than with social justice...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Of Men, By Men. and For Men | 10/28/1972 | See Source »

...American Empire than the trashers alleged. The men of the CFIA are not evil imperialists but well meaning economists statisticians and sociologists with their own developed view of the world--a view that holds up international stability under benevolent American dominance as an ideal toward which to strive As Introducing Harvard" explains their view of stability actually serves to justify brutal repression of Third World liberation movements and their conception of American benevolence turns out to mean exploitation by American corporate interests. The CFIA is an enemy of the people of the world but it is an enemy that must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Learning to Cope with the Real Harvard | 9/29/1972 | See Source »

...only thing that can make you small is to have eternity in a grain of sand, you know. Some religions would say one can strive, but Zen would say even to strive is to miss the satori. The goal is being rather than becoming. This is again where I feel that the mystical movements are the most technologically sophisticated political movements now operating. They make everything in Herman Kahn and the Club of Rome seem incredibly naive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Interview: The Mechanists and the Mystics | 8/21/1972 | See Source »

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