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...Pentagon, now as familiar an address around the world as Whitehall, 10 Downing Street or the Quai d'Orsay, is a vast concrete and limestone materialization of the military mind. Like the military mind, it inspires awe, often admiration, sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection to conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...concept of objective reporting, said he, is basically wrong; the facts need careful interpretation if they are to explain to readers the significance of happenings in the modern world. "Spike" Canham, who has steered the Monitor toward more realistic news coverage by just such stressing of interpretive reporting, explained his philosophy under the headline: HOW TO USE YOUR NEWSPAPER. It was also an important lecture to newsmen on how to edit...
MACARTHUR: "That policy . . . seems to me to introduce a new concept into military operations-the concept of appeasement, the concept that when you use force you can limit that force ... If you practice appeasement in the use of force, you are doomed to disaster...
MACARTHUR: "Senator, that is a hypothesis that is very difficult to speculate upon. The basic concept . . . would be that Formosa should not be allowed to fall into Red hands ... I believe if it does, that you have not only lost every thing we gained in the Pacific war, but you have rolled our strategic frontier back from the little island groups that defend us now, all the way to the western coast...