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...South Viet Nam and disturbed by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong infiltration from across the border in Cambodia. Even if the President sets the figure at 50,000 or more, he can ease the blow by announcing that number but delaying actual reduction until the situation becomes clearer. He did just that with stage three...
...attitudes of black Americans have hardened into a pattern that may well shape the U.S. racial crisis for years to come. Pride in being black is now solidly entrenched. Still-unbroken barriers of prejudice, discrimination and inequality are clearer targets for blacks than ever before. Black confidence runs deep that matters are improving and will get even better. The vast majority want to work through the existing system-economic and political power-for further improvements. But most of all, black Americans see their own militance and strength winning the battle for equality over a white-run system. They increasingly distrust...
...slashed rents and utility prices: regulated foreign-owned industries and when they refused to comply, nationalized them. Cuba refused to accept U. S. dictates about foreign or domestic policy, and began political and economic relations with socialist as well as capitalist countries. With each new revolutionary law, it became clearer that the only road to freedom and economic development was socialism...
...being written like a clown. One week I came very close to asking to be let out of the entire series because there had been a couple of weeks like that." Hence, there are seemingly endless bull sessions between cast and producer to work out better dialogue and clearer confrontations between characters. One day Haynes vehemently announced: "These scenes are so far away from reality! There's no attempt to get any sort of realism in the dialogue between the black actors." Result: there's more realism...
While his poetry has generally become clearer and more direct, Auden's language has become more esoteric. He has two copies of the 13-volume Oxford English Dictionary -one in New York and one in Austria-and he loves to look through them, finding such words as "bransles" and "whelking." As he said- "The words are all right there in the OED.; I don't make up any of them" -and he chooses words for their sound and meaning, not for their familiarity. "One special duty of the poet is protecting the language constantly against corruption and vagueness," he said...