Word: touche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soft? Lapp is not the only American with that view of Kissinger. Herman Kahn, head of the Hudson Institute "think tank" and long an influential consultant to the Pentagon, once noted that the creator of the film character Dr. Strangelove used "part Henry Kissinger, part myself, with a touch of Wernher von Braun" for a model. In fact, claims Yarmolinsky, "the resemblance is entirely superficial. He is no war lover, period." Rather, Kissinger is acknowledged by most of his colleagues as a thoroughgoing "realist" among the often dogmatic band of thinkers known as "defense intellectuals...
...still have problems coming to terms with "Christmas," start thinking how different it is from the summer be-ins, spring on the banks of the river with a transistor, fall touch football up and down Plympton St. Christmas is a big secret that everyone else knows. Maybe you wish everyone else didn't know it so you didn't have to ho-ho-ho your way down Mass Ave person by person. But let me ask you, what else do you have that you could be doing when December comes in to rattle the heat pipes if you didn...
NORTHSHIELD'S explanation of why TV was abused after Chicago is something like the "messenger-bearing-bad-news" theory, with a McLuhanesque touch. Television, he says, has become more than a vicarious experience for the American viewer. What happens on the TV screen is as concrete a reality as anything that happens in his own life. What happened last summer was that ugliness intruded into the viewer's life through TV one time too many, and he rebelled...
...million Currier House will relieve over-crowding in other dorms, but allowing more students to live off-campus would do the same thing. And the plans for coffee shops and renovated dorms show the same nostalgic attachment to the concept of small-college community that is increasingly out of touch with new demands for genuine coeducation...
Royer had problems with the knee last year, missing most of the team's schedule. But the scoring touch which produced 13 points a game, second on the club, will be greatly missed...