Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strutting on the Stage. The French government, not pleased by the aggressive sound of force de frappe, prefers to call its creation a force de dissuasion. The theory behind the force is that not even a nuclear power would want to destroy France at the possible cost of the retaliatory death of even a few million of its own people. This view is disputed by critics of the policy, of course, who say that few if any Mirages would make it through Russia's thick air defenses to their targets-and that the Russians know this. They point...
...reconstitute ones self is for a man to remake the world in which he is defined. To know what we might become is not a simple test of the intellect, but it requires that we engage in such committed action as can destroy the deforming boundaries of our lines. So, action and thought require each other, inform each other, and complete each other, and the obligation imposed on the intellectual, as it is imposed on any man, is not merely to speak against the world, but to refashion...
...tough policy even extended to demonstrations that had nothing to do with the war. In Manhattan, a group of nature-lovers from City College of New York took their stand before a ditchdigger breaking ground for a new building that protesters claimed would destroy much of the remaining greenery on the crowded campus. C.C.N.Y. President Buell Gallagher watched disenchantedly for a while, then turned to city police and ordered: "Move in on them now." The police arrested 49 students, charged them with criminal trespassing...
...them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...
...which to live. The Master can forget his obsession and remains in peace with his beautiful mistress Margarita (who has given up a promising career as a witch for his sake). But Bulgakov makes clear his own belief: Pilate's guilt, an expedient cowardice that allows power to destroy good men, still lies on Russia...