Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When one's country is wrong, loyalty demands protesting the wrong. And when petition to correct the wrong fails, testing the constitutionality or legality of the law by civil disobedience is a needed and courageous act of loyalty. Silence and compliance are betrayal of one's country," Butler said...
Sundering the Bloc. Práce was most likely correct. Any Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia à la Hungary 1956 would have horrendous repercussions for the Kremlin's foreign policy. It would shatter the carefully cultivated détente Russia has been building with Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left...
...fourth time in six years, the Pulitzer committee last week gave no prize for an American drama. The committee is correct. No American play of the 1967-68 season merited an award. While it may pique national vanity, an esthetic dry spell is no novelty in the long history of drama. The sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than...
...grind a metaphor to dust faster than Godard, and in this pacifist fable, he grinds out dozens of familiar antiwar gambits. But this time the man ner enhances the material, and man ages to prove Borges' maxim correct...
...difficulties during its second mission last month that NASA officials feared yet another unmanned flight would be necessary before the rocket could be trusted to carry astronauts into space. Now, after a careful review of the troubles that cropped up in flight, NASA has decided that it can probably correct them all and make Saturn 5 safe enough to carry a manned Apollo spacecraft into orbit this November or December. By eliminating another unmanned test of the huge rocket, NASA would save about $280 million and avoid further delays in its program to place U.S. astronauts on the moon...