Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdrawal is plainly not acceptable to a majority of Congress or of the country-at present. But proposals for bigger steps toward disengagement continued. Charles Percy urged Nixon to halt all bombing and offensive ground operations in South Viet Nam. Mike Mansfield, the Democratic Senate leader, proposed that Washington attempt a ceasefire. He credited Nixon with wanting out of Viet Nam, "sure as hell." That Hanoi knows this too makes the dispute over the propriety of dispute academic...
...should like to offer the following response to the notice in the CRIMSON of October 7th endorsed by numerous Harvard faculty members, opposing the faculty's taking a stand on issues relating to the war in Vietnam. The statement in question includes four reasons for opposing the attempt to "bring political issues" before the faculty. I would like to consider each in turn...
Faculty members spoke against most of the changes with the same arguments they used in an unsuccessful attempt to block limited grade reform last year: shortages of funds and the possibility that hiring would be done by means of influence, race, or religion if there were no grades...
...attempt to get around the moral and political issues, but an attempt to have the Faculty face those issues," Mendelsohn said of his resolution. Another proponent argued that "Every action we have taken since April has a political content...
Arthur Penn's new film, Alice's Restaurant, is an attempt to construct, of all things, a comedy around this sadness. It works. It works so well that I started crying about halfway through the movie and didn't really recover until the next morning. I don't even remember the last time I cried for a second in a theatre, but I had to cry during Alice's Restaurant. I had to cry to keep from going insane...