Word: beare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peter Rabbit, and all the things that the word probably suggests, and then forget them; because when Brower starts talking about what we're doing to nature, he sometimes gets angry, the things he says aren't usually very pretty, and he has few kind words for Smokey the Bear...
...been examining proposed changes in the draft; Classicist Stringfellow Barr, who has tried to draw some lessons from ancient times to apply to the present-day U.S. (one of them: Woe to the nation that puts too much faith in force). Far from being abstract, their writings clearly bear the imprint of their personalities...
...Left receives passing tribute for its radicalism, but criticism for lack of a strategy. "They say, 'We've got 200 people--let's make a revolution.' Well, you don't make a revolution that way." Schoenman's own revolutionary recipe centers on the "white working class" whom, he says, "bear the brunt or corporate capitalism." In a cold tone, he advises the radicals to continue demonstrations to gain mass support, foresake the "moral witnessing" of draft resistance, and begin longterm organization...
...THOMSON: I think many of the steps we took from 1949, 1950, onward seemed plausible at that time within the immediate circumstances although had we had better expertise available to bring to bear on the problem even in those early periods, I think that many of these decisions could have been avoided, would have seemed less plausible even in the light of the expertise at that time and, of course, in terms of hindsight this is a process of really collective error, cumulative error, collective guilt by both parties, a long and tragic and deep involvement, and at each stage...
Otto Eckstein recently predicted that all the money saved from ending the Vietnam war will be channelled right back into the military budget instead of being used for social spending. Now David Rockefeller may put some quiet pressure to bear on the President to prevent this happening but by himself he can achieve nothing...