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...Reischauer, however, does admit that the conservatives and businessmen in Japan were deeply concerned when he was first appointed. He attributes this anxiety to the "head-in-the-clouds image as a professor" which preceded him. The Japanese businessman's relations with the intellectuals are even more tenuous than they are in this country, Reischauer says...
This gap between "activity and self" finds expression in college slang such as "come on like," "make like" and "turn on." The compliment "cool" indicates this "same tenuous connection between deed and inclination." Though most of his life is centered on acquiring expertness, he seeks meaning in his personal relationships, and is in, this sense primarily what Keniston calls a "privatist," seeking human bonds to find identity and self-definition. The old question, to bed or not to bed, has been superseded by an "effort to define the precise circumstances under which sexual relations are meaningful and honorable." The professional...
This was no easy exercise, particularly for an Administration that prizes pragmatism above all. It had nonetheless succeeded so far. By week's end, at least, near-anarchy had been succeeded by a tenuous accord in Saigon. The Military Directory, headed by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, had survived, but with lost face and a doubtful future. The U.S. would still be dealing with the Directory as it prepared to hold elections to give the country a civilian government. But Washington would have to pay increasing attention to Tri Quang, the infrangible Buddhist prelate who had emerged as the country...
...Molotov cocktails started a dozen fires while looters pillaged stores. Having learned their lesson in August, when police initially pulled out in hope that the violence would die down, more than 200 cops swept through the streets in prowl cars or twelve abreast on foot. After four hours, a tenuous calm was restored. The toll: two dead, 26 injured, 34 arrested, 15 buildings damaged...
...Tenuous Compromise. The French presence in Brussels had been arranged six weeks earlier in Luxembourg by a compromise in which France and the other five EEC countries somewhat tenuously agreed to try to smooth over their rift without removing its causes. Still, before the European Economic Community can strip away the remaining tariff barriers to farm and industrial trade among its six members, it must wind its way through a maze of outstanding issues. Foremost among them...