Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately, this is the great contradiction: As American capitalism's genuine need for foreign resources grows, the cost of containing revolutions abroad multiplies. Not only must a complex network of relations with other industrial powers (including the USSR) be maintained, but the United States must confront its ultimate inability to offer any program of social reform as adequate as socialism to meet the desperate material and social needs of Third World nations...
...forced the morally committed artists of Latin America to take a political stand. In no other part of the world is such imaginative literature being produced in response to such crucial problems. Writers such as Llosa and Marquez recognize that economic and cultural subjugation go hand in hand. They confront issues of culture imperialism because they know that dissension in popular art from the encroachment of a foreign culture is as necessary as political opposition to more overt acts of foreign domination...
...only the second time in U.S. history, the American people seriously confront the possibility of the impeachment or forced resignation of a President. It is a painful, lacerating process-as agonizing for them as it may ultimately be for the stricken President. Though a few are gleeful about the possible removal of an old enemy, most face the prospect with considerable foreboding, a profound sense of loss for themselves, their country, their history. A majority still do not favor impeachment, though it is openly discussed everywhere. But many hope that Richard Nixon, in a final presidential act, will resign...
Declaring November 22 a day of "national rededication to the struggle against racism in the universities, in the White House and in [students'] homes," the organizers urged students nationwide to confront their parents on the issue of racism by boycotting the dinner table...
...women who are now enrolled in colleges like this, but who will never have the chance to stand or struggle, perish or prevail, all for no other reason of exclusion but the accident of color, cash and birth. Those, however, who partake of opportunities like these cannot confront the dangerous idea that what they recognize as their participation is someone else's cold and inexplicable exclusion. The scholar trains himself, therefore, to live as if this were not so: as if there were no causative connections, here to there, this side to that. He needs to believe that...