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Economy and Tact. As case history, Ariana's problem is not uncommon. She is unable to choose happiness over despair because her will has been paralyzed. In Wheelis' view, the cause is not only Craig's outrages but the subtly pervasive spirit of the age. Behaviorists, technophiles and their parrots in the social sciences have overemphasized the lock step of instinct at the expense of free will. For many people, the result is a form of fatalism that destroys belief in the possibility of change...
Careful Enough. The talents most needed by the director of Selective Service are tact, discretion and a sense of fairness. In his later years, Hershey, who was draft chief from 1941 until last month, became a symbol of the arbitrary imposition of punitive regulations on the young. Tarr seems careful enough to avoid being labeled doctrinaire. For example, on the question of Richard Nixon's proposed all-volunteer army-about whose virtues Congress is split-he has scarcely said a word, suggesting that a matter so important should be the decision of the President. The Administration has taken soundings...
...same time, he has saved himself from becoming what he would otherwise have been six month or a year from now: the plug-like symbol of everything that is inflexible and anachronistic in Harvard tradition. After a series of years in which he sometimes overlooked subtleties of tact or timing. Pusey showed outstanding sensitivity, taste, and good sense in his decision...
Last week Kennedy did it again. During questioning by friendly Republican Congressmen on the Joint Economic Committee, he was asked whether the current 4% unemployment rate was "acceptable or unacceptable." Ignoring a prepared statement that a staffer hastily handed to him, Kennedy replied with more candor than tact: "Under present circumstances, it is acceptable." To compound matters, Kennedy also raised anew the idea that if present anti-inflationary policies do not work, the Administration would have to consider "moving into the field of controls of some kind...
...four summers now, in the center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use anything--from a Times Square News Flasher heralding the scenes to a case of Carling Black Label in the New Tankard Cans at the Last Supper--but use it only with the tact of art, the high decorum which subsists in the meetness of technique and purpose...