Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former draftee, I know only too well that the present draft system is imperfect and that servicemen are greatly underpaid. But is a highly paid volunteer army really the answer? I think not-the opinion of my political hero William Buckley to the contrary...
...monetary policy. A sound and expanding economy is more important than any single federal program in combatting poverty and many other social ills. Beyond that, how should the Federal Government direct its huge (but not unlimited) resources toward achieving the nation's ideals? The question now demands a different answer from the one that Americans have grown accustomed to since the New Deal. The Depression clearly required Washington to "do for the people what they cannot do for themselves." However alluring that idea seemed as recently as the days of Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society, it is now close...
...answer, of course, is not to abandon the automobile?except in the central city?but to restore the balance. The Government already supports mass transit ($153 million this year, v. $4.1 billion for roads). Without costing the taxpayer an extra penny, it could multiply this sum 13 times simply by diverting half the money it spends for roads to transit lines. To improve the civic order, the Nixon Administration could also grant more generous funds for planning and esthetic improvements, going so far as to deny federal grants for such things as sewage plants to municipalities that continue to ignore...
...every American. In the elementary and secondary schools, the chief object of its attention must for the immediate future remain the ghetto child. One of its top research targets should be how to educate the black child of the inner city; no one has yet found a very good answer. Truly effective ghetto education is at least as important as a cure for cancer...
...limits and variances in perception. It is such an inquiry into ourselves that is at the roots of Deaf Dumb and Blind Boy. Suppose a person has none of the normal mechanisms of perception; in what terms will be formulate his understanding of the world? Peter Townshend's answer is that the world is understood wholly in terms of vibrations, perceived through the sense of touch I presume. Thus, his recreation of the story of a particular deaf, dumb, and blind boy is wholly musical. He is seeking not only to imagine what such a person is like...