Word: tactics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extension of the battlefield. Totalitarian nations are not content merely to extract information from a P.O.W. They often hound and harass a man for months and even years in order to win his mind and soul, to reduce him to an instrument of propaganda. It is, of course, a tactic that the Soviet Union devised for use against its own political prisoners, as dramatized with terrifying realism in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon...
...cannot go back to its 18th century maxim: "That government is best which governs least." A highly interdependent nation needs a great central government to cope with problems that affect all citizens and states. But equally obvious, Washington needs a new tactic: it must encourage Americans to do for themselves what they could do if they tried to. This idea has often been used as a sort of shorthand for the callous notion that all public assistance is a coddling waste; it does not mean that in the present context. What is at stake now is the freeing...
...furniture design. Nonetheless, the Saigon regime has an immensely important point to make in all the wrangling: that it should not recognize the Viet Cong as an equal, which for the South Vietnamese is the crux of the talks. Unremitting delay is also likely to be the Communists' tactic while they attempt to get the measure of their opponents. Indeed, Hanoi won a modest diplomatic victory last week when neutral Sweden announced that it would recognize the North Vietnamese regime. It was the first Western nation to do so-though Britain maintains a consulate in Hanoi...
...Board and Master Gill may feel that nothing else could cause this violent tactic other than the rashness and immaturity of students. One might consider that there can never be an excuse for violence. But I think there is an explanation. I feel that there are important reasons why students approach change violently. If the Ad Board, administration, and faculty attempt to understand the fact that many students feel that change will only be produced by violence and attempt to discover why students feel that way, the Paine sit-in will be put in its proper perspective...
...monopoly on a decision whose consequences affect students. I do not doubt the Faculty's right to meet in private on certain questions, but when it comes to the decision-making process, the Faculty must guard against the tremendous power it has as a closed body. The relatively mild tactic we adopted was legitimate to question the faculty tradition of autonomy and isolation relative to issues today, and specifically ROTC...