Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Once you start using gas to kill, you start an enterprise whose end is impossible to calculate," he said in his argument for a basic change in the use and development of chemical and biological weapons...
...tableaux) at the expense of marching scenes and horas. But there are other problems. Kimball and Kimbrough, while excellent, are all too evidently acting toward their roles from their personalities (which shouldn't exist); the result is a lag in the first act that is enhanced by the lengthy argument between Sade and Marat. This is fairly tedious, since the play doesn't want to give ideas, but only imitations of ideas, swathed in anger and spectacle. The debate is something a callous director could cut down, a careless director here takes seriously and a really alert one would accelerate...
...most laudable projects under the War on Poverty has fallen victim to Mississippi. And the shame of it is that the project was not only attacking the psychological and social bondage of the state's poor Negroes, but it was also substantiating the argument that the beneficiaries of anti-poverty programs should help run them...
Unexpectedly, Lin as Defense Minister became one of the most dynamic men in the government. He successfully (though perhaps only temporarily) resolved a heated argument between officers who favored an army based on technical expertise and officers who stressed political reliability. Through his energetic insistence on political control, Lin turned the People's Liberation Army over to Mao lock, stock, and barrel...
McNamara's appeal did not seem to move either side at the time. Said Jennings: "I don't buy the argument at all." But the negotiators then moved to a windowless room in the basement of the Labor Department building where, under the anxious eye of Administration mediators, they finally hammered out their agreement. For months, labor-management analysts had been saying that the G.E. contract would set the pattern for more than 30 major industries over the next year. When last week's settlement was reached, it was difficult to see how it could...