Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will profoundly affect the United States itself. In human costs alone, thousands of American soldiers will be killed. In terms of foreign policy, the chase for "victory" will lend increasingly voice to those who would meet revolution anywhere with military intervention. Domestically, the need for a war consensus could threaten civil liberties, place in doubt the fate of controversial programs for The Great Society, and inflame even further a public opinion which tolerates no concessions to the Communist threat...
Among youth today, one of the major struggles is for genuine democracy in all aspects of their life. By democracy we do not mean merely the limited right of voting once a year, but rather, the right to participate and contribute to all decision-making processes that affect our lives. the program of our Party is nothing less than the completion of the democratic revolution begun in this country in 1776 and continued with Reconstruction in 1865. We are working to make the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence a reality to all today--to the Negro...
Last spring, the CRIMSON asked that American troops be withdrawn from Vietnam. We felt that a National Liberation Front government was the only possible outcome of the situation in Vietnam. We doubted that leaving Vietnam would seriously affect America's international position. And we believer that only America's intransigence and unwillingness to negotiate was prolonging...
...Justice. Although he was opposed to the changes, Cardinal Bea urged the bishops to approve the draft, arguing that the rewording did not affect the basic intent and merely stressed "those things which unite men and lead to mutual fellowship." Predictably, Jewish organizations responded favorably to the vote for the declaration, although their enthusiasm was something less than ecstatic. That there should be debate at all on the question of Jewish guilt seemed wrong to some; others felt that the bishops had compromised by adopting a statement that was less forthright and to the point than it might be. Particularly...
...Parisian, he is Armenian by blood, and his keening laments have echoes of the Middle East in them. Their deepest roots are not in the Paris streets but in the tavernas of Greece, the souks of Morocco and the wailing wall of Jerusalem. Aznavour has the power to affect an audience the way he does because he sings of a betrayal beyond love, something unutterably sad at the heart of things, the treacherous, tragic nature of life itself...