Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have never heard anyone argue," one professor remarked. And students in lower-level courses rarely volunteer information. "Do you have any comments on de Tocqueville's views? . . . Well, what impressed you in the book? . . . I know you've read the book, haven't you? . . . You're all alive, aren't you a desperate teacher said...
...have not met your Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge," she told an audience of some 800 which jammed the Women's National Press Club. "But from a distance he seems more mysterious than an Asian." The Kennedy Administration was full of liberals, she said, and while "liberals aren't red yet, they're pink." As for the U.S. decision to withhold some economic aid from the Diem regime in hopes of forcing reforms, it only proved that "there is no real eagerness to win the war against the Communists...
...dipped fairly freely into my first bottle of port, my father said to me: 'You know, the most important thing in life is to know when to stop.' " At the height of the leadership auction at the Tory conference in Blackpool this month, a reporter goaded Home: "Aren't you catching the fever?" Replied the Foreign Secretary: "Put your hand on my forehead, and feel my pulse. You will find that both are quite normal...
Americans aren't the only ones with faith in U.S. know-how, Brazilians who joined the U.S. officials in preparing the Peace Corps project agreed that it didn't matter much that the volunteers had no professional training. Dr. Jose Pacheco Pimenta, head of the CVSF, travelled to Oklahoma University to encourage the volunteers in training. When one girl told him she didn't have enough experience to set up hospital labs in Brazil, he shrugged and said, "Come anyhow, you can learn." She said Pimenta seemed convinced that "Americans can do anything...
...argument that radicals should be read out of the Republican Party, Goldwater said: "These practitioners of defeat and advocates of political suicide, these political isolationists, are suffering from a purge complex. They want to purge the party until no one is left but them and thee-and they aren't so sure of thee...