Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DuBois left Great Barrington to make his place in the world: to challenge and ultimately defeat Booker T. Washington: to found, in effect, the NAACP: and to become the father of twentieth century black intellectuals. His efforts to solve the American racial dilemma led him to take varied political positions, from black nationalism to Communism. Finally, surrendering all home in America, he want to Africa where he died in 1963. Last week a small portion of the world made its way to a small field, just off Route 23 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts to pay homage to this...
...year ago today, an injury-riddled Dartmouth football team suffered a humiliating defeat in Harvard Stadium. It was the first time that the Big Green had lost that badly to a Crimson team in almost seventy years, and it marked the turning point in a Dartmouth season that was to progressively become worse...
This year. Dartmouth is a rebuilt football team. It is undefeated. It has played four good football games. And it remembers last fall's humiliation. Indian coach Bob Blackman isn't the type to forget a defeat, and unless Harvard puts it all together this afternoon, he may present the Crimson with an ironic reminder...
China would be relieved that a massive U.S. military presence so close to its borders had retreated, and would doubtless gloat over the defeat of what it likes to call the "paper tiger." Part of the considerable aid that China has been giving to Viet Nam might be shifted to domestic projects or to insurgents who are making trouble for other Asian nations. Possibly, China would heat up the pressure again on Taiwan. But most signs are that China, with all its domestic troubles, would not be likely to indulge in foreign adventures. For the time being at least...
...later with the French. Before the French invaded Indo-China in the late 1850s, Viet Nam was turned inward, in the Confucian tradition, shunning Western culture and technology. When the French arrived, they were greeted with bitter hatred and a protracted series of rebellions, which culminated in their defeat at Dienbienphu in 1954. Now that the French are long gone, having left behind businessmen, educators and diplomats, they are clearly more highly regarded than the Americans. Cultural affinities remain relatively strong; educated Vietnamese send their children to French-run prep schools, and degrees from French universities carry more prestige than...