Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly the U.S. will suffer serious political costs in liquidating a struggle in which we have excessively enmeshed ourselves, and it would be naive to pretend otherwise. But if we are sensible about it and do not blow up the dragons of catastrophe beyond life size, those costs need be only short term. In fact, if we learn the right lessons and resist drawing the wrong conclusions from this unhappy national experience, we may, over the long pull, emerge the stronger...
...blow, coming from what is at least nominally "Burger's court," startled some members of the Administration. Many Southerners who had believed that Burger's accession to Earl Warren's chair would somehow ease judicial pressure for integration were also shocked. The court did nothing to change the logic of decisions based upon the Brown precedent. Rather, the issue was timing: by commanding immediate compliance with the law, the Justices brought an urgent new perspective to the complex and long-delayed process of integration. The decision establishes a judicial canon that will probably end dejure segregation before...
...extreme example. a radical might argue that since ROTC, the Center for International Affairs, and a professor who attacks theories about American imperialism all serve the same basic. "bad" function, he will fight ROTC, blow up the Center, and make sure that the professor's views are suppressed. Such extreme escalation of targets and such tactics are few at present. This is fortunate since no university can continue. however imperfectly, to educate through a free exchange of views when its classes are disrupted and its professors shouted down if they happen to espouse the "wrong" views...
...property. But she will not be moved, and she wins the aid of some colorful companions-a ragpicker (Danny Kaye), a waitress (Nanette Newman) and a young student activist (Richard Chamberlain). In the end, she overcomes, imprisoning the villains in the Parisian sewer system and striking a blow for liberty...
...dreams that he is accused of eating Fritos. He is the poor chap who cannot get invited to those with-it parties Rosalie attends, "where whites gathered to be castigated by some prominent Negro." Says Barnett: "I can't understand it. I don't like to blow my own horn, but I do think I'm as guilty as anybody." As the anti-anti-anti-hero of Calvin Trillin's collection of short, softly hilarious, episodic New Yorkerish misadventures, Barnett jousts for Rosalie's attention in the culture jungle of the great city, raising...