Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anglo-American relies upon personal interest to accomplish his ends, and gives free scope to the unguided strength and common sense of the people; the Russian centers all the authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude...
What had they hoped to accomplish? Grumbled a student: "What else can we do against Kishi? Korean students had the right idea - look what happened to Syngman Rhee." A Korean newsman who had watched the riot said wonderingly: "They must be crazy. Korea and Japan are entirely different situations. Don't they know they live in the freest society on earth today...
...since 1950, when the Communists decreed them equal to men, the women of Red China have been spurring. Today nine out of ten of them have jobs, and when they get together, boasts the weekly Women of China, they "do not gossip any more, but talk about how to accomplish their production task." When that subject palls, they switch to discussing the Five Goods (e.g., "Do good in self-study"), and after that, the Seven Stills ("Some women still indulge themselves in ideas of conservatism, self-abasement and dependency...
...Love, Dreams, Smiles of a Summer Night), in which his first worthwhile women appear and begin to educate their demoralized and dependent men. The education obviously succeeds, for in The Seventh Seal, Bergman's first heroic hero appears: a knight who delays implacable Death long enough to accomplish "one single meaningful action." He preserves the lives of Mia and Jof (Mary and Joseph)" and their infant son, who will one day ''perform the one impossible trick" of making a ball stand still in the air, i.e., he will transcend nature. The Seventh Seal marks the great divide...
...preserve decorum, when to persuade someone quietly to call for an adjournment, and when to press for a night session. The Assembly job also calls for the exercise of behind-the-scenes social as well as diplomatic skills. Fortunately, Frederick Boland is a gregarious man. "You can accomplish a lot over a steak and a dry martini," he says. "I just hope my liver holds...