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Word: distinctiveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peace talks, the formal meetings at Paris' Hotel Majestic have been counterpointed by private sessions between the U.S. and North Vietnamese delegates. These in turn have apparently influenced Hanoi's conduct of the war. In nearly six months since the talks started, there have been three distinct phases before the present hopeful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: War and Talk: a Chronology | 11/1/1968 | See Source »

...second half of When the Living Gets Better features a sound track which is positively creative, and need not apologize for being only quasi-synchronized. Songs blip for an ugly instant as Sally primps. Two songs run on top of each other in distinct gibberish as she smiles at her date. The soundtrack is used by Waletzky to tell us what the pictures alone only suggest. Near the end, sound pops into sync with the click of a light-switch, grabbing our attention for the brief, affirmative finale...

Author: By David W. Boorstin, | Title: When the Living Gets Better | 10/24/1968 | See Source »

After less than two years in office, Ramsey Clark has become one of the most controversial Attorney Generals in U.S. history. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the people who believe that the nation is coddling criminals, and a distinct issue in the 1968 presidential campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Department: The Ramsey Clark Issue | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...what is an absolutely insoluble contradiction: being practical and reasonable is impossible if I am to retain any shreds of sanity or honesty. Is a time of "saving" cities by destroying them one when a thinking person can sit on the sidelines and be "reasonable"? I would suggest a distinct and, if you will, moral "no." In this instance principle and expediency have become mutually exclusive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A 'Moral Purity' Trap? | 10/17/1968 | See Source »

...problem--that of "white racism" in America and the growing spirit of discontent by black people--and the Cox report performs a similar task in discussing the basic causes of student discontent and showing the "authoritarianism" of Columbia's administration and trustees. It has therefore provided a distinct service, especially to the so-called "establishment" which so often blames campus uprisings on radical or revolutionary students supposedly dedicated only to destruction and violence. The Cox Commission has established that the Columbia rebellion was not all due to SDS members and their "exaggeration" of the actual state of affairs...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: The Cox Report | 10/9/1968 | See Source »

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