Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million of U.S. assistance to three leftist governments of the Movement of National Revolution has failed to attain any benefits whatsoever for the Bolivian people and has not even merited anyone's gratitude...
Comrades, we live at a splendid time: Communism has become the invincible force of our century. The further successes of Communism depend to an enormous degree on our will, our unity, our foresight and resolve. Through their struggle and their labor, Communists, the working class, will attain the great goals of Communism on earth. Men of the future, Communists of the next generations, will envy...
There are pages and characters in Herbert Lobsenz' first novel (which won the $10,000 Harper Prize for 1961) that are not total losses. In Satry's brother Alonso. Author Lobsenz fashions a Don Quixote-cum-Candide whose pratfalls over the purity of his own logic attain a kind of tragic hilarity. Alonso is the puppet of his fate and a prototype of all the fanatically idealistic students who march and die in the streets...
Instead of asking for a numerical score, Brown and Cornell require students to take a year of literature after they attain an intermediate stage--comparable to French C or German C. The elementary language courses at Cornell differ from those in the College by running eight hours weekly, instead of three or four...
...Extended deterrence"--overwhelming military superiority--is a second approach. But, said Beer, the U.S. is unlikely to attain either "a first-strike capacity so great as to eliminate Russian retaliatory power, or a monopoly on anti-missile defense so perfect that we need not worry about Russian retaliation...