Word: suggestion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convincingly than almost anyone else the respectable alternative that Johnson has repeatedly demanded of his attackers. He is neither a name caller nor a placard carrier. He is no Mary McCarthy, who fatuously insists that it is the intellectual's duty merely to oppose the war, without deigning to suggest how it ought to be ended. Nor does he resemble those clergymen whose justifiable indignation at the war's barbarities is diluted by the fact that it is usually directed solely at the U.S., not at the Communist terrorists as well...
Until the last few days we have exercised some restraint about civilian deaths, With morality-rates after single raids in the hundreds rather than the hundreds of thousands. But recent events suggest that we have reached the kind of turning-point that occurred sometime in 1942, when a secret policy-decision was made to abandon traditional restraints against large urban populations. As ordinary citizens, we may never know when or how such a turning point is reached, as the British Air Command continued to deny any policy-change even after the destruction of Dresden...
Despite the council's harassment, the GSA activists have managed to squeeze out an emasculated sort of referendum. But the highjinks and obstructionism suggest that working through the council may not be worth the time and trouble...
Recollecting the time when the Advocate's style was "like that of a Harvard English professor," the member went on to suggest that Randolph Rheyns '68 and Mack Dewart '70 wrote their articles under the influence of drugs...
...intelligent skepticism. What can one say to an organization that admits an occasional failure and states with pride, "We have probably made by now all the mistakes that can be made in programming?" Is that good? More to the point, is it necessary? I would claim not. I would suggest that intelligence and a highly developed self-critical faculty can very often avoid the necessity for learning by making all the mistakes that can be made. Louis J. Cutrona...