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...Solidarity's great promise as a model for change, in both socialist and capitalist countries. Should they succeed, they will have done what most called impossible--create a pluralist socialist state. Like revolutionaries of an earlier date, they are united partly by hate--not of capitalist overloads, but of distant state bureaucrats, who inflict as much pain and humiliation as any factory owner. More the unity of the oppressed than simply of labor. Solidarity represents a radical national ideal--a state where the citizens were really in control of all social facets of life. Walesa et al do not want...
...least as much an issue was another President, almost 13 years out of office. The late Lyndon B. Johnson, father of the Great Society, was also the father of Robb's wife Lynda Bird. Her mother, Lady Bird, gave $25,410 to the campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements of his coalition: suburban moderates and independents, coal miners and union members, many rural conservatives...
Finnegan was a fireballer, and with a couple of timely aids form his distant outfield, he kept Harvard at bay most of the afternoon. When Haster stepped into the batter's box in the sixth inning, the game was locked in a scoreless...
...early impressions of the U.S. It's important to keep in mind that Europeans [in 1940] knew little about American society and politics. What they knew was mostly from movies. It was a distant land. But the name of [President Franklin] Roosevelt evoked a positive reaction among all democratic Greeks. I was impressed with the openness of American society. I admired people like Adlai Stevenson: he was my friend and I was his representative in Minnesota. Later I had close contacts with the advisers of President Kennedy. I personally have a great deal of gratitude for the chance given...
...split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star's composition, age, temperature, motion, magnetic field, even whether it was a single or double star...