Word: combatancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons for it are complex. It is clear that any committee that Bok and Rosovsky form to look into the question will not be able to resolve the issues. But Harvard's admissions office should promote more recruiting among public schools, and less at private institutions to combat this trend...
...speech's importance lies not in its emphasis on either the need to combat "the spectacle of corruption in high places" or the need to analyze the failure of federal programs to cure the nation's social ills, but in a large conception of educating students beyond the undergraduate and even graduate level...
...characters are creatures of the best reveries of childhood. This does not mean that they should be taken lightly. Writer-Director Milius has some distance on his dreams, but he is still absolutely devoted to them. The Wind and the Lion has a view of the glories of combat and courage that is both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even has enough bluff and crust to look, at least superficially, like a real military romance...
...didn't and the reason was that a very subtle transformation was working in me, exactly as it was in everyone else I knew in the class. I came back from Harvard thinking of myself as an ex-soldier, a returned veteran of infantry combat, and two years later I had been transformed into something that in reality I was, a sophomore at Harvard. There were times, exam periods for instance, when I could barely remember having endured the war. The war, the most endlessly earnest, realistic experience of my life, had become fantasy. Harvard was the reality. Harvard owned...
Hard Kick. The cannon was effective, of course, showing the world that the U.S. will not accept humiliating provocations. But the U.S. success owed almost as much to luck as to skill in combat. If the Communist Cambodians had dug in and refused to release the Mayaguez crew, the military mission might well have aborted. In an interview with TIME Correspondent Joseph J. Kane, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger admitted: "The outcome was fortunate...