Word: basics
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...talk at the Divinity School Forum touched on an array of topics last night, but although he sandwiched quotes from the Talmud and the Buddha with clinical observations, Erich Fromm always returned to one basic theme: all psychiatric problems are moral problems...
Even to neutralists' skeptic eyes, the contrast between Ike's performance and Khrushchev's was stark. Eisenhower's remarks were not particularly eloquent, and invoked no propagandistic emotions: they were in West Point English, basic, clear, specific. Khrushchev (who advised reporters to "bring your lunch") showed the bad habits of speaking to captive audiences. And in showing his underlying hostility to the U.N. as a rival world system, the Russian badly miscalculated. His audience, the new nations of Africa and Asia, is fiercely loyal to the U.N. With little room for positive proposals left...
...with all their points of agreement, Nixon and Kennedy took widely different approaches to the basic farm problem of price-depressing surpluses. Putting greater stress than Kennedy on increasing consumption, Nixon called for a "crash agricultural-research program" to find "new industrial and other uses for our farm products." In Operation Consume, drawing on the old more meat, less bread approach to the surplus problem, Nixon had urged a program for converting surplus grains into protein foods. Under this program, farmers would get grain from the Government to feed to livestock and poultry; the meat, milk and eggs produced would...
...have become so accustomed to reliance upon nuclear deterrence, disguised as "security," that its rejection creates a vacuum that appears equally frightening at first glance. Conflicts among nations exist and will continue to exist, and we must consider how to keep alive our basic values and defend our tradition of liberty in the absence of the self-defeating policy of deterrence. Today the choice before thinking Americans who are concerned about the future of the nation and of mankind is not total surrender versus total annihilation. This idea is either a deliberate invention to support the massive retaliation doctrine...
...possible consequences of such radical action include invasion, conquest and tyranny; yet they are within the limits of human experience. Societies throughout history have been able to recover from situations comparable to the most extreme of these possibilities. We accept responsibility for developing effective ways of keeping alive our basic values and stand ready to dedicate our lives toward this end. But we deny the alternative of nuclear deterrents, for they threaten not only our existence, but man's future as well...