Word: vietnamize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...values his remarks imply. While there may be justification for viewing the tactics of the Revolutionary Action Movement and other militant groups as threatening, there is no conceivable justification for his calling SDS ideology "anti-American prattle." Hoover's statement was made before President Johnson announced a reversal in Vietnam policy, and perhaps Hoover would now be more reductant to equate opposition to the war with sedition. Nevertheless, his personal judgements on what opinions are "safe" for the country constitute a threat to freedom of thought and political opinion...
...conflict between these different mentalities is universal, but varies in its virulence from society to society. In the U.S., for example, the Bureaucrat does not have much power over the individual's personal or artistic life. Crises erupt, as over the Vietnam War or at Columbia, when the Bureaucratic power suddenly stands revealed as unreasonably wide-ranging...
...July call is the lowest since the 11,400 of April, 1967. Draft calls rose sharply at the start of this year because so many men called in the Vietnam buildup two years ago were completing their compulsory service. That cycle has now been completed...
MARY McCARTHY, the novelist and penetrating critic of the grotesque Vietnam War, has recently remarked in the New York Review of Books that whatever intellectuals do with their skills and cleverness, they should never shy away from doing what they can do best--namely, to smell a rat, metaphorically speaking, and to dissect its nature and character, letting the chips fall where they may. To some extent, this is what I should like to do in my comments on the "Intellectual Validity of the Black Experience...
...share of their total product, they will become increasingly vulnerable to the kind of economic sanctions a central bank is capable of applying. The ability of a nation to long defy world opinion or conduct itself in a manner a majority of other nations think improper (the U.S. in Vietnam or South Africa and Southern Rhodesia within their border), would be significantly reduced...