Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breakdown. The Communist concentration led a U.S. officer to comment: "There are still no signs that the lull in enemy activity has been directed by Hanoi as a sign of good faith. We still believe that the enemy is refitting for another offensive." Supporting his view was the fact that prisoner interrogations and captured documents continued to indicate that a November as sault was planned. The U.S., for its part, maintained its bombing raids against North Viet Nam's panhandle-roughly from the 17th to the 19th parallels. Early last week, bomber pilots flew 139 missions, the most...
...substituted for problem-solving and what starts out as an intellectual problem atrophies into so much stone-throwing and name-calling. Of course one must realize that by jumping in the middle of a stone fight one always runs the risk of being hit and mediation is invariably viewed by one side or the other as a sneaky attempt at a put down. But for either side to view this issue in terms of victory or defeat would be exceedingly dangerous--victory in this case would be marginal and deluding and would, at best, ignore the qualitative problem of developing...
Heimert's view of the university can be deduced from this concern for his own integrity. Like so many of the men who lived through McCarthy's murderous anti-intellectualism, he has come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says. "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however...
...this poisonously introspective era, when everyone talks of the unconscious and a few people believe in it, Heimert's verbal rough-housing may seem a flight from even the possibility of self-recognition. His own view of the constant alteration of point-of-view is that it is the most direct form of personal education. "What else can you mean by consciousness expanding," he asks, "than the attempt to comprehend all the life styles in an age?" This is his short-hand way of expressing the old desire for transcendence. A man who is nothing, after all, is potentially everything...
Under Miller's tutelage this idealism grew naturally into the view that the most worthy object of historical study is human consciousness. His concern is not for the great system-builders and the source of their thought, but for the vitality and diffusion of ideas themselves. His archives are the libraries of second-rate thinkers. For example, he ransacked the effects of the Puritan ministers and aldermen for evidence for his major work, Religion and the American Mind. The Idea has for Heimert a life of its own, conditioned by the physical furniture of reality but also conditioning...