Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take exception to your qualification of Bolivia's army as "ineffectual." If effectiveness is the capacity to perform specific tasks, it is well to remember that the Bolivian army successfully and speedily dealt with the guerrillas organized by the infamous Che Guevara, who was considered, together with Chairman Mao and General Giap, the supreme specialist in that kind of warfare. If the U.S. Army, with its fantastically superior might, had been proportionately as successful in dealing with the Communist threat in Southeast Asia, I am sure you wouldn't have thought of calling it ineffectual...
...must masquerade as art and display redeeming social value it will not be able to do what it can do best. What good pornography can do best, besides titillate, is educate. As long as public schools refuse to instruct people visually in the arts of sex, pornographic films will perform a vital function of introducing people to the appearance and interesting use of sexual organs...
Harvard's track team elected junior Keith Colburn as its captain Sunday night, then wolfed down a chicken dinner at the Harvard Club, received a table full of individual awards, and strolled around the corner to the Eliot Lounge to hear teammate Spider McLoone perform on the piano...
...curb on secret war research, and last week M.I.T. began turning away new contracts. It seems undesirable to transfer such work entirely to the military, but much of it could well be shifted to independent research centers such as the Rand Corp. The secret work that some scholars perform for the CIA in a university setting is also due for rethinking...
...report further charges that the system is unlikely to perform well, is "highly susceptible to penetration,' cannot be tested, would probably start a new round in the arms race, and "would seriously impede the conclusion of an arms control agreement...