Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a concussion of future shock in the idea, a bewilderingly abrupt role reversal. The thought of bestowing American largesse on Hanoi, so recently the enemy at war, is already stimulating resentment, confusion and, occasionally strange alliances in the U.S. For different reasons, George McGovern and Barry Goldwater find themselves repelled by the idea. At the same time, the Nixon Administration is discovering improbable supporters-Edward Kennedy for example-in what is taking shape as a bitter congressional struggle over the issue. The debate embraces large questions of domestic priorities and needs, of the nation's responsibilities...
Hodges even dares to have the story take a serious turn - a rather abrupt one, to be sure, but audacious and very nearly successful. King becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies, crippled when the most lurid creations of his fiction become real and dangerous. His single defense is to wall himself up inside his own perfervid imagination, to distance reality until it becomes remote and unthreatening...
...West's proposals at Helsinki came as no great surprise. Fearful of the already powerful pull of Western ideas, aspirations and affluence on their own populations, the East bloc regimes have been digging in against detente with the toughest ideological crackdown in years (TIME, Dec. 25). Still, the abrupt Soviet treatment of MBFR suggests that, detente or no, the West may have less leverage than it expected when it comes to prying significant concessions out of Moscow...
...growing older and trying to piece together the experience of the year past. We had seen a student movement racing ahead at an ever-accelerating pace, racing beyond what was possible in its own time, perhaps, seeking impossibly humane ends. Then we saw that movement come to an abrupt halt. We were unable to revive it because we lacked the optimism of our predecessors; the disappointment of the spring of 1970, of a President whose only response was a midnight visit to the Lincoln Memorial to talk about Syracuse football, left them embittered. But it left us in a vacuum...
...promises of protection to the pupet regimes through which it manipulates internal politics in countries of the Third World. An American withdrawal would confirm this paramount lesson of Vietnam, and it is thus understandable that President Nixon and his advisors have "ruled out" the possibility of an abrupt, immediate withdrawal...