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...themselves to a region of utter clarity and so have only relative truth. They are valid so long as they are assigned their proper place. They are not to be mistaken for absolute truth. They are used to communicate the shadow of what has been realized. Every word, every concept is a pointer which points beyond itself. The sign should not be mistaken for the thing signified. The signpost is not the destination...
...letter to the Sunday New York Times, Galbraith termed obsolete the concept that "military manpower must be produced cheaply." Since the United States can now afford the amount necessary to pay a volunteer force, the draft survives, in Galbraith's opinion, "principally as a device by which we use compulsion to get young men to serve at less than the market rate...
European nations have a strong moral committment to the democratic philosophy of the West, and they must not be pushed into neutrality through nearsighted policies formulated before the concept of a long cold war became a reality. Redefinition of this situation came when Secretary Dulles, as early as last April, saw the problem and presented the solution to it. He pledged a revision of NATO from a purely military alliance to a group of nations united by a common danger and a common philosophy and engaging in multilateral trade. Through such an expedient we could not only effectively weld...
...blunder on Perón typified the difference between the Stevenson of 1952, a man meticulously concerned with facts, and the Stevenson of 1956, a man furiously concerned with winning. Last week, particularly when he discussed his concept of a "New America," Stevenson showed flashes of his old eloquent self ("Leadership in a democracy can be no more than the capturing of a people's power to realize their own best ideals"). But most of the time, he seemed more content to let the sparks shower merrily and fall where they might...
...Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the century, presidents, Congress and prevailing public opinion in the North agreed to leave the "Negro Problem" in the hands of "intelligent Southern white men." Booker T. Washington, in his Atlanta "Compromise" Address, September 18, 1895, greatly strengthened this concept. The fact that a Negro opposed "artificial forcing" and urged reliance on "Southern write friends" made it one of the main currents of American thought. Hodding Carter, one of the best known contemporary Southern white liberals, has considerable support in the North when he insists "Leave us alone." There is even a residue...