Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think your story about "two Americas" was laced with truths, but you copped out in the last paragraph. Where is the increased sophistication you attribute to today's electorate if the voters are less willing to discuss issues? Perhaps the issues today are too painful for Americans to be honest with themselves about. The war, poverty, racism, etc., draw sharply uncomfortable contrasts between our professed ideals and our country's recent policies and actions. Nixon's America seems neither candid nor even curious about the root causes of these national failures of the "American Dream...
Dunlop came, and so did 30 members of the Union, but the confrontation fizzled when Dunlop steadfastly refused to discuss the Union, insisting he had "been invited as a professor and not as dean of the Faculty...
...month reflected a growing attitude that the technocrat-heavy organization is impersonal and even a bit dehumanizing, a bureaucracy that will make government even more remote from the individual than it is already. Thus, in an ironic turn of history, leaders of nine nations will meet in Paris to discuss the expansion of a united Western Europe to little or no public applause...
Back in Moscow at week's end, an exuberant Balanchine was discussing the Bolshoi's request that he "give" them several of his ballets, most especially Symphony in C. That would mean, among other things, his returning in the near future to polish the productions himself. "Maybe when Nixon and Brezhnev next meet, they should discuss my coming back," he said with obvious relish and a great flourish of a glass of Mukuzani wine...
...Daniel Ellsberg ever discuss with you the content or existence of the Pentagon Papers between Jan. 1, 1971, and June...