Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more profitably reading something else. The worst part of it is the musings over the technical difficulties of his novel in progress which are presented in such a fragmentary manner that we never know what he is getting at. Besides, who, even ten years ago, would consider presenting rough draft passages of a novel with notations even before it is published? Imagine Robert Frost publishing those terrible first drafts of his famous poems before the poems themselves came out. "I hold it very indecent that a man should publish his meditations," said the Earl of Shaftesbury. "These are the froth...
...book he was faced with reams of tapes and notes, and some new conclusions about Arnheiter. He chose to stick with the style he knew best--a newspaper format chocked full of "he said"s and "however"s; in light of Arnheiter's suit, had retained his first draft. But happily for the reader, Sheehan decided to scrap the 120,000 word manuscript which resulted from his first efforts, adopting instead straight dialogue and third person narrative. The end product is a spry and carefully-woven chronicle of the career of one of the Navy's most public lunatics...
...Supreme Court ruling, which still seems to embody a moral imperative as well as sound logic, even though many blacks themselves are disillusioned by the idea of integrated education. But given the country's mood, integration will obviously not be brought about by massive busing. Draft legislation has been drawn up by Bickel and North Carolina Congressman Richardson Preyer that would allow one-way busing -ghetto to suburbs-or permit students to transfer as part of a national plan to end segregated schools...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power...
...absent-minded way the United States in Viet Nam may well have stumbled upon the answer to "wars of national liberation." The effective response lies neither in the quest for conventional military victory nor in the esoteric doctrines and gimmicks of counter-insurgency warfare. It is instead forced-draft urbanization and modernization which rapidly brings the country in question out of the phase in which a rural revolutionary movement can hope to generate sufficient strength to come to power