Word: argument
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin is "fundamental" and in Viet Nam only "marginal" [Nov. 7]. As an isolated and militarily indefensible outpost, West Berlin is of no strategic value; it is indeed a liability, because fears of Soviet retaliatory pressures against the hostage city restrict American freedom of action elsewhere. The decisive argument against abandoning Berlin is simply that to surrender a U.S.-protected non-Communist population to Communist rule would be a morally intolerable betrayal, and that for Washington to let itself be coerced into committing such a betrayal would have devastating consequences on anti-Communist morale...
Graham B. Blaine. Jr.. psychiatric chief at Harvard's University Health Services, gave his own version of the Bettelheim argument in a speech to the American Social Health Association on November 1. The text of the speech-entitled "What's Behind the Youth Rebellion?"-was reprinted in the magazine section of last Sunday's Herald-Traveler...
...persons were treated for tear gas burns in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where ministers offered sanctuary for protestors. About 10 p.m., police-claiming a rock had been thrown at them from the church steps-prepared to fire gas at students and clergymen sitting here. After 15 minutes of argument, clergymen dissuaded them...
...need for tight money. Presidential Counselor Arthur F. Burns, who is scheduled to become Federal Reserve chairman in January, said last month that "we will not budge." Simultaneously, however, Labor Secretary George Shultz began arguing for an immediate but moderate expansion of money and credit. Though he lost the argument, he soon may gain an important ally. Paul McCracken, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, believes that the severely restrictive policy has been correct so far, but now he is beginning to wonder whether the time has come to advocate some loosening. He admits that...
...fact, that is precisely Eiseley's argument in this curious book: If science ignores the ancient intuitions of poets and primitives, it is likely to become an arrogant distortion of its own truth. Practicing the sensibility he preaches, Eiseley begins each chapter under the guise of an old-fashioned personal essayist. Almost casually, he recalls a walk on the beach, the odd behavior of his shepherd dog one stormy winter night, a dig among American rhinoceros bones...