Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even psychological conditions are not "suitable" even in Bolivia. If there does come a time when the mass of the people of a country are thoroughly incensed about their plight, nobody will pause to remember what happened or did not happen in Vietnam. Future revolutions will collapse or flourish for reasons other than an American victory or defeat in Vietnam. Thus, continuing the war in Vietnam is actually irrelevant to the furthering of the American interest...
...common. And such lack of community is regrettable, for it is in community that one is able to learn and share with others on a personal basis; it is in community that one finds relevance and immediacy in education; and it is only in community that a college can flourish...
...losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect...
Someone pointed out that Peter had cleaned off the pictures over the bar and Grogan began talking about his friend McNulty. He talked about McNulty's practical jokes and good deeds. With a tiny rhetorical flourish he remarked, "Never speak ill of the dead, and as the poet says, 'Goodbye, Good Prince, the flights of angels will sing thee to thy rest...
Four "Reflections" have appeared to date. Like his books, they deal with what book reviewers call "the human condition" and therefore are not required to be topical. While most columnists are content to get a few facts straight, Hoffer likes to sum up whole civilizations with epigrammatic flourish. In this week's column, he chides U.S. intellectuals. They are "likely to consider any achievement not fathered by words as illegitimate," he writes. "Hence their disdain of things which have come to pass by chance. To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries...