Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions." With South Viet Nam's captured American arsenal and a rich new source of manpower-the population of both Viet Nams is about 43,000,000-Hanoi will now be the preeminent military power in Southeast Asia, and its neighbors are nervously wondering whether it will be content with last week's victory or pursue an expansionist policy. One alarming note was the immediate call for the ouster of U.S. forces from South Korea...
...Japanese War of 1904 and 1905." A colleague adds: "The Chinese have been restrained about Indochina developments. They are not all that ecstatic about the North Vietnamese dominating the region. For the Chinese, the U.S. is a counterweight to the Soviet Union." For the moment, Moscow appears restrained and content to wait for the situation to ripen (see following story...
Ibsen also wrote Peer Gynt to lampoon Norwegian egoism, self-sufficiency (presented as the trolls' motto) and political character, and you can see why almost anyone would be content to glean what meaning he could from the play. But Director Peter Frisch, who seems to want to drive home every nuance, cut the script sufficiently, and Peer Gynt, which runs over three-and-a-half hours, emerges much longer than the dramatic interest warrants...
...door to the Oval Office: "You can gain a lot from reading and thinking, but you're more likely to acquire a sense of the mood of the country by meeting with people. It's important that the President have a sense not only of the intellectual content of an issue, but also be exposed to its intensity...
...community hardly constitutes an action group. And these open forums and colloquia--given, according to the DISC proposals, only if researchers desire them--will mean that research could be under some kind of public scrutiny and that it could be considered on the basis of the "quality" of its content as well as the "quality" of its methodology. If, as Brimmer seems to think, there is a "void" in Afro-American research, there should be no reason why it can't be filled in part with research related to issues of black history and culture important to contemporary black experience...