Word: allows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conceit: what might people do and say and discover about each other if they were suddenly left in a total blackout on the evening of a vitally important party? To begin with, this poses a little problem of stagecraft: How do you present actors in the dark and still allow the audience to see them? Simple: by reversing things. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark; when they are suddenly supposed to go out, the stage blazes with light...
...about atrocities balances the picture as it must be balanced when you are trying to present a total picture of what occurs in a situation like this. It all reduces itself, it seems to me, to a very simple fact, and that is this. Is there a desire to allow the destiny of this country to be peacefully settled or is there a desire to impose upon people a forceable solution? We said we want a peaceful one and I have said, let's test our intentions by taking up your statements...
...about. That is what we are attempting to do. You cannot, with a magic wand, create conditions of peace which you and I would both hope to serve. Nor can you do it by obviating the great concern. And above all things we must avoid action that would allow a third World War to come about. Sometimes limited action, as we all know from our domestic experiences, can prevent more tremendous holocaust. And if there is a justification for our policy, that is the justification of our policy. That is what has to be argued. Not the question that...
According to Legal Aid President Davis R. Robinson, the new plan might increase membership from the present 38 to as many as 50 students. "It is primarily an attempt to strengthen the weak link of our summer program," Robinson said. "It will allow students to be elected to membership on the basis of demonstrated interest and ability, rather than on grades alone," he noted...
...organizers worked again through long-distance conference calls, connecting 10 to 15 student leaders at a time from coast to coast, to arrange an acceptable date. Although the State Department insisted initially that the number of students be limited to 20, they agreed five days before the meeting to allow 45 to attend...