Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dual Delusion. All three, naturally, were critical of U.S. policy in Viet Nam -but in terms that were either so abstract or so oversimplified that the hawks were scarcely ruffled and the doves not much comforted. Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Jerome Frank pointed out the truism that nations in conflict tend to ascribe the noblest of motives to themselves, the worst of intentions to their enemies. This dual delusion, he said, has given the war in Viet Nam "an ideological character similar to the holy wars of former times." In such a conflict, punishment has "particularly little likelihood of success...
...become a truism in the U.S. today that the public is confused and uneasy over the war in Viet Nam. The disquiet results in part from President Johnson's failure to justify the conflict in terms that Americans can readily understand and believe. But if there has been too little enlightenment from the top, there has been too much obfuscation from the nation's academic and intellectual communities, whose present chorus of dissent has reached a volume unparalleled since the antiwar diatribes...
...support each other. The Viet Cong have given the disease a free hand by preventing anti-mosquito spraying. And malaria has helped the V.C. by attacking newly arrived U.S troops who do not share the partial immunity of men who have had malaria and recovered. It has become a truism among U.S. troops that "if you go out and catch Viet Cong, you'll also catch malaria...
...swimming truism that you can't have a winning team without freestylers. With four individual events and two relays dependent on the freestyle, a team without a sprinter is going to lose meets, no matter how good the rest of the squad...
...Books. How did such a book come to be written? The author's error may have been in accepting too literally a favorite fancy of the 20th century-the psychiatric truism that omens seen in dreams are more accurate than those visible to the waking mind...