Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your '68 Man of the Year I suggest Alexander Dubéek. The Czech revolution was the year's most dramatic show of man's attempt to change his institutions from arbiters of the absolute to servants of societies' needs. This attempt underlies the world's major stories of the decade...
...Workers do not have power at the moment. The only possible means for them is to mobilize in large numbers. Their flirtation with Wallace was an attempt to acquire some institutional power in government. Traditional politics, the Democratic and Republican parties, do not offer them this institutional role...
Nevertheless, radicals have had, and are likely to have, very little success in this attempt to convert the Workers into agents of the revolution. This is because the Workers believe deeply in the existing value-structure which necessarily is one that is designed to perpetuate the present relationship of power. Specifically, this is the ethic of individualism which says that each man must try to acquire as much wealth for himself as he possibly can. The index of a man's standing is measured exclusively in terms of the goods he possesses which ensures the smooth functioning of the growth...
...varsity swimming team will rely on seven returning lettermen and a strong group of sophomores in its attempt to improve on last year's 6-4 record...
...completely ridiculous activities of the SDS, which you seem to tacitly approve of, have finally come to a head in the attempt to ban the ROTC...