Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory about the preferential ballot is that you vote for as many people as you want. Contrary to expectation, a fourth or even fifth or sixth vote may mean something in a close election, and there is no reason to think that today's elections won't be close...
...forces could do much to slow down an invasion from the east; even a completely equipped "Uniforce" would be terribly overmatched by whatever the Russians threw against it. The "Bridgehead" concept is getting more and more antiquated as the pace of modern war picks up; military strategists like to think that if we must fight a war, we should be able to pick a better operating area than historically vulnerable Western Europe...
...morale is a nebulous thing. Arms aid is certainly not the only morale-lifter, even if the recent moves of the U. S. towards committing itself to European military intervention, if only in case of war, have sent hopes climbing in the West. Furthermore, a lot of people think that some of the governments Acheson wants to arm don't warrant this elevated morale--that aid would be channeled into uses (such as the Dutch found for their equipment in Indonesia) which would be very far from the democratic ideals the Pact is supposed to reinforce...
...visiting newshawks were given a free rein on questions and drinking water, but Valpey's short talk was so disarming and complete that nobody could think up anything to ask him after he finished...
Nausea is the expression in fiction of Sartre's response to being alive. Descartes, who titillated the 17th Century intellectual world, thought he was creating a new philosophy on St. Augustine's premise: "I think, therefore I am." Sartre's fundamental observation, an overstatement of something found in the writings of Kierkegaard and the German existentialist, Heidegger, may be paraphrased as "I exist and find it sickening." The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked...