Word: thoughtfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While the campuses burn and the students bleed and the ghettos decay and the war in Viet Nam worsens, our President comes over here to see Harold Wilson and De Gaulle. I thought the Republican plan was to pull back from world affairs until America's problems at home and in Viet Nam were solved. During the campaign, Nixon said: "If elected, I will go to Viet Nam." It seems to me that he is going the long way to get there. Why is he still campaigning in Europe...
...find in the world's proverbs valuable clues to the history of human intelligence? What is the origin of such familiar advice as "Waste not, want not"? (See BEHAVIOR, "The Wild Flowers of Thought...
...Viet Nam now number 32,376, and the total is fast approaching the Korean War figure of 33,629. With round after round of Soviet-made 122-mm. rockets crashing into cities and killing Vietnamese civilians, the Communists appeared to be violating the tacit understanding that Lyndon Johnson thought he had with Hanoi when he ordered the bombing halt: in return, the Communists would withdraw troops from the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Viet Nam, begin serious negotiations in Paris -and end the shelling of major population centers...
Instead of waking us to new thought and new freedom, they have made us, even those of us most enthusiastic at the outset, reflect on the kinds of thoughts that really do threaten us, things we abhor considering. Thoughts of preserving the system--where classes and dormitory rooms are open to anyone--instead of changing it. Mr. Collins's gang says if kids don't want them in class to "get involved" and "make" them leave. But we don't like to be forced into police committees. We catch our talk of "outsiders" and "disruption" and it reminds...
...WHICH gives a partial and very inaccurate picture of Eldridge Cleaver. His knees may be too tender for the pigs to handle him, but there is not one solitary thing wrong with his intellect. Or his powers of observation. Quotations won't get it for showing Eldridge's Thought. To deal with his intellect and ideas, you have to bring your own, sit yourself down, and lock horns...