Word: views
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the international point of view, perhaps the chief fact about the invasion is that, far from strengthening Soviet-style Communism, Moscow has further crippled it. Acting on the flimsiest and most cynical of pretexts, Warsaw Pact troops throttled the infant independence of a state that had reiterated its fidelity to Moscow and Communism. To retain its grip on Eastern Europe?perhaps only for a few years more?the Soviet Union had sacrificed much of its influence among Communist parties elsewhere. Not since the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939 had the Kremlin acted so palpably from fear and weakness. Under...
Leading war critics like Dr. Benjamin Spock lumped Soviet aggression with the U.S. role in Viet Nam. Senators McCarthy and George McGovern joined in this view, arguing that American interventions, whether in the Dominican Republic or Southeast Asia, encouraged the Russians to act and also robbed the U.S. of moral authority...
SOME historians, remarked Arnold Toynbee, hold the view that history "is just one damned thing after another." Himself a believer in orderly historical patterns, Toynbee disapproved of such an outlook. But 1968 seems bent on supporting what he called the "antinomian"* view...
...amount it charges member commercial banks for borrowed funds. Normally, the other eleven district Reserve Banks soon fall into line with such shifts, but this time there were signs of dissent and delay. The key New York Federal Reserve Bank, which frequently takes a more conservative view of monetary matters than the Washington board, let word leak out that it was miffed at the timing. By week's end, only the Richmond Reserve Bank had followed Minneapolis' lead. Still, few if any bankers really expected the holdouts to persist over a very long period of time...
Back home, meanwhile, the parents of the missing children also go off the deep end. Pandemonium breaks out and the film suddenly turns into a satiric moppet's-eye view of adult life. A multilingual U.N.-cooperative group meets to solve the crisis-and babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...