Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manpower of this generation, to use the SSS's terms, is being "channeled" into the "essential" endeavors. Essential for what? one asks; and the SSS itself answers most articulately. In an SSS document entitled "Channeling," recently cautiously withdrawn by the SSS, the organization shows it is proud of "developing more effective human beings in the national interest." The SSS document repeatedly mentions that by manipulating deferments it has the same control which "foreign systems" achieve by means of coercion. Still quoting the SSS's own document: their goal is to make the individual feel as if he is "standing...
...suspension of the charter was withdrawn two weeks after the controversy began. The report of the Special Committee called the charges of vote-fixing invalid. The freshman who began it all was attacked as a publicity hound...
...unconditional negotiations." His suggested answer to the Vietnam dilemma is negotiations based on the assumption that an interim government composed of representation from both sides will be set up, that elections will be held in the South under international supervision, and that all foreign armies will be withdrawn...
...Kenny McBain (Malcolm) was superb. He sulked, raged, spoke nonchalantly of impossible exploits. Occasionally he displayed an earnestness at once irrestible and absurd. Other times he sat on his throne, demanding obeisance yet remaining withdrawn. His final cry--"I can't even believe in my own fantasies"--confirmed the rightness of his characterization. The cry was a surprise, but after it came you felt you'd expected it all along...
...officials, McNamara occasionally made euphoric prophecies about Viet Nam that, while politically appropriate at the moment, later turned into ammunition for Johnson's critics. The most unfortunate boomerang was tossed in the fall of 1963, when McNamara and General Maxwell Taylor predicted that most U.S. troops could be withdrawn from Viet...