Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charisma" [Oct. 17] was splendid and timely, but I must take issue with your characterization of Clement Atlee's postwar government in Britain as "dull, bureaucratic but quintessentially normal." The Atlee regime inaugurated six years of the most far-reaching social reconstruction in British history. It established the vast welfare state at home and presided over the dissolution of the British Empire abroad. The Atlee regime may have been dull and bureaucratic, but it most assuredly was not "quintessentially normal...
Naked State. Maine is the last state on the upper Eastern seaboard that has not been industrialized. Now its vast forests and ore deposits make it a tempting target for mindless exploitation. As Cole tells it, even the Mafia has joined various land grabs in Maine...
Readers uninitiated in the mysteries of Asian Studies should not be misled by their plea that they "have lived in Asia and studied Asian histories and culture," thereby implying a vast well of wisdom. Among them there is precisely one (yes, 1) Vietnamese expert. The rest are "China hands" whose knowledge of China is largely limited (excepting Prof. Fairbank) to interviews of Chinese refugees, CIA and government documents, and similar contacts with the real China. For all intents and purposes, their China, i. e., Taiwan, is simply a distant suburb of Los Angeles...
What is of supreme importance is that each of us should become a person, a whole and integrated person in whom there is manifested a sense of the human variety genuinely experienced, a sense of having come to terms with a reality that is awesomely vast...
Robert Breshnahan, a member of the SMC steering committee, tried to clarify this position later. "The vast majority of M. I. T. students support the anti-war movement, and are opposed to M. I. T.'s complicity with the war. The NAC's projected tactics alienate this base of support, rather than enlist it against M. I. T.'s war research," he said...