Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort (TIME, Sept. 27). That did not sit well with some South Vietnamese hawks, who worry about a U.S. sellout and who fear popular Big Minh as an ideal figure for eventual compromise with the Communists. Vietnamese Deputies and Senators began receiving un signed letters that branded Minh a tool of the Communists. Catholic extremists planned street demonstrations, and the Buddhists were quick to plan counterdemonstrations. There were other rumblings as well; some people were unhappy about the reappearance of former Diemist officials in the government...
...reasonable stance. Thus, a political line can never justify the distortion of truth -- I am still enough of a "scholar" to believe in this much. However, I must also say that I believe over-reliance on "reason" is basically escapist. Reason is simply and only a tool, to be used to further whatever ends one wishes.* It is not an end in itself, in spite of the desire by many to worship such procedures as reason, logic, and pragmatism as cardinal virtues. This view fits neatly into American-style utilitarianism, especially since a "resort to reason" is continually used...
...urban public school. Another is to work in the non-establishment media, underground newspapers, small theater, radical film, both documentary and artistic. Perhaps most momentous, community television stations could be established in the suburbs as well as the urban areas. (Television is going to be the most potent tool of social change in the near future and it offers the best possibilities for the talented hippie-radical to achieve any dent in society. Physicists could be television engineers and artists could put the meat on the skeleton of radical theory...
...100th anniversary of the 14th Amendment, and at a centennial commemoration sponsored by N.Y.U. Law School, all three defended the use of the amendment's "due process clause" to strike down state laws that discriminate against Negroes or deny federally guaranteed rights. Brennan called the 14th "the prime tool by which we as citizens are striving to shape a society which truly champions the dignity and worth of the individual." Perhaps with the court's Senate critics in mind, he traced the history of the amendment arguing that it was the original intention of Congress to have...
...second time in a week that a Marine in student sanctuary rejected the Resistance in favor of official surrender. Last Wednesday Paul Olimpieri, given refuge in Andover Chapel at Harvard Divinity School, accused Divinity school students and the New England Resistance of using him as a tool to publicize their own goals...