Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position of great power. Many nations expected us to transmit freedom throughout the world overnight. While this was an extremely unrealistic expectation, Isaacs noted, the failure of the U.S. to make any significant improvements shattered the image of the United States as a miraculous nation that could accomplish anything...
...strange tyrant in Cuba (who arms the populace he "terrorizes") and his revolution, de present a challenge to Latin America and the U.S. For the former, the challenge is to accomplish a similar revolution without being forced into either of the world blocs. For the U.S. the only challenge that exists is to understand the Latin American, and then to aid Castro in his attempts to bring to the majority of Cubans--suppressed for so many decades--the kind of life we have and boast of. And indeed, this is the challenge given us by all Latin America, which will...
...Strings Attached. The title story, really a short novel, is somewhat different from the others: it shows what Muriel Spark can accomplish when she forswears the stage properties of the semi-supernatural suspense story and moves her characters about with no strings attached, "he tells the life and death of Daphne du Toit, an enchanting and entirely credible South African girl whose betrayed dreams illuminate a basic Spark theme-the cruelty of reality and the greater cruelty of the illusions that falsify it. (British Author Spark herself spent 6½ years in Southern Rhodesia during World War II, working...
...Congressman is careful to distinguish between campaigning and serving: "There is a mood in Washington, a certain pre-occupation with getting re-elected. I've said I'd rather spend two years down there trying to accomplish something, than ten worrying about re-election. We may lose this election, but then again, we may surprise them." Meyer's adversaries have called him irreligious (he is a former deacon of a Dutch Reform Church, and has made a concerted study of all the major religions) and a dupe of the Reds (he warned against the consequences of close alliance with...
Besides Kingston and Hoey, Princeton can count on Geoff Azoy, Bill Carr, and Dave Fitzgerald for respectable showings. But if all the Crimson can accomplish today is the defects of the Tigers, the day will not be a brimming successes...