Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, reality bears them out. What, then, can anyone do? Big Government or big business or big cities cannot be done away with. A nation of 200 million or 300 million-as the U.S. will be in another generation-cannot survive without a vast bureaucracy and without a multitude of laws. The day is long gone when a family could simply pack up to avoid being hemmed in by complexity. Even as technology opens up vast new worlds, extending man's powers and perceptions a thousand-or millionfold, many long for the simplicity of an earlier era. Yet there...
...public-interest pressure groups to counter the lobbies and private-interest groups that inevitably will be out for their own game. Americans have not watched their elected representatives closely enough or set standards for them that are half as high as they should be. In the end, the truism cannot be denied: People get the kind of government they deserve. Ultimately, they also get the kind of country they deserve...
...just as you are open to me." Dialogue involves serious listening-listen-, ing not just to the other, but listening to oneself. This rare and wondrous event Kaplan calls "communion" instead of communication. "It seems to me impossible," he says, "to teach unless you are learning. You cannot really talk unless you are listening." The student is also the professor; the joke teller should also be part of the audience. To Kaplan, there is nothing lonelier than two humans involved in a duologue-and nothing more marvelous than two genuinely engaged listeners. "If we didn't search so hard...
...drama of the crew exchange, it was the docking that mattered most. Soviet booster rockets are dwarfed by America's Saturn 5 and cannot thrust a manned spacecraft to the moon in one leap. Instead, the Russians must assemble their lunar vehicles in earth orbit. Until last week, although they had twice docked unmanned spacecraft, no cosmonaut had piloted the pieces together...
...immediate task in 1969 is to make a decisive step toward price stability. This will be only the beginning of the journey. We cannot hope to reach in a single year the goal that has eluded every industrial country for generations-that of combining high employment with stable prices...