Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect at home was also encouraging to the Administration. Nixon realized that, sooner or later, the onus of his predecessor's war would have to become his burden. He is determined to avoid the loss of confidence that brought Lyndon Johnson down, and which, if duplicated now, would turn the U.S. bargaining position into dust. His tone of businesslike candor, as well as what he said, bought him at least some time...
Unambitious women, therefore, don't suffer; the burden falls on women like the Institute Scholars who want careers, as well as families. And here the Institute comes in. Since most of the Scholars have to adjust their schedules to husbands and babies, the instigation where they study or work must be flexible. And the Institute is flexible: it allows the Scholars to study and produce, as they would in graduate school, but on a part-time basis, as they could not in graduate school. Provided with the amount of money she needs, each Scholar works out her own budget...
Shouldered Burden. One result of this shifting balance could well be a French decision to bring Britain into the Common Market as a counterweight to the increasingly potent neighbor across the Rhine. De Gaulle favored a "Europe of nation-states" and doubted that political union was possible or desirable. The U.S. has long backed British membership, as have France's five Common Market partners; Pompidou has already indicated that he thinks British entry is not forever out of the question. If the French now help to make Britain more firmly a part of Europe, what may finally come about...
While that cannot happen overnight, Western Europe may finally be able to cooperate in taking over much of its own defense-thus shouldering more of the huge military burden that the U.S. has carried since the cold war began. "The shape of Europe's future is essentially the business of the Europeans," Richard Nixon has observed. If De Gaulle's return to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises clears the way for a new Western European consensus outside his outsized shadow, the U.S. may finally see what it set out to achieve after World War II: a Continent once more...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...