Word: sides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mobilization by the former governor of this state and by the Vice-President are, because of the eminence of these spokesmen of administration policy, a more serious aggravation of the frightening moral schism in our society than the introduction of Vietcong symbols by youthful extremists on our side...
...greater for acknowledging through us, an articulate loyal opposition, that we have unwittingly done a great wrong and must be prepared even to make reparations for our mistake. And at the same time, without illusion, we must remain or become realistic about the totalitarian ferocity of the other side as it emerges exhausted but triumphant...
...most of the '60s, the nation was transfixed by its darker side, as if some impulse of Ahab were obsessively driving it to a suicidal reunion with an evil deep in its own nature. The astronauts reasserted the chief mate Starbuck's cool, professional sanity. Not intellect, but intelligence. Not evil, but remediable errors, course corrections, chatter from Capcom to Houston. In the Middle American version, the Pequod steers for home: Moby Dick is a holdful of whale oil for the nation's lamps...
...will never accept an "imposed solution." Moreover, the Russians have engineered a 180° shift and announced that they would not accept the feature of the U.S. plan that would probably be most acceptable to the Israelis-Israeli-Arab negotiations, by means of a mediator who would carry one side's proposals to the other...