Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stabilize Asia. I must assume that if I knew what they know, I would have acted the same way." Perot says he would be pushing the same campaign if Hubert Humphrey were President. "Regardless of your opinion of the man, the President's power is the most effective tool for bringing about a fair peace. This is not Nixon's war, not Johnson's war; it is our war, and we can help...
...would not be human, nor would it be great; a city is great only in its human associations, confusing as they may be. The ancient Athenians, true urbanites, delighted in the everyday drama of human encounter. For them, the city was the supreme instrument of civilization, the tool that gave men common traditions and goals, even as it encouraged their diversity and growth. "The men who dwell in the city are my teachers," said Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus, "and not the trees or the country." In turn, the city transformed them into something they had not been previously...
Information on every kind of tool and trade and new idea is listed, from organic gardening to Moog synthesizers. It tells you where to learn about hitch-hiking, tantra art, the domain of man, and altered states of consciousness. You hear of magazines that give you earth beauty and ones that give you "practical information on two-strategies of survival if national affairs get funny: Hiding and running." There are toys, lists of schools filled with the ecstasy of education, books that teach you how to make a whole environment out of any environment from commune to suburb. The reviewers...
...however. Whole Earth Catalog is a tool. Wander through it, admire it, be sure to use it. The worlds resting in its pages are wide open for those ready for the adventure, but it will be worth nothing if it is not allowed to function as it is designed. It is a good thing: let it lead you on to better things...
Then Roberts rose to offer his amendment, arguing that the proposed resolution did not completely erase the policy of using scholarship reduction as a disciplinary tool. "We have one form of leverage here and we choose to use it on only one class of our students," he said...