Word: echo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is in the current protests against our nuclear arsenals at least the faint echo of the question raised more than half a century ago about Haig. Are the men and women in the White House, Pentagon and State Department grown so callous from their endless war games and box scores of missiles and megatonnage that the potential human tragedy has receded in their deliberations...
...South African academic spending leave at Harvard. I echo the sentiments expressed about divestiture by Minister Keaneth Carstens recently reported in your columns(11/9/83...
Helms' principal argument was an ugly echo of the McCarthy era. "There is no evidence that Martin Luther King was a member of the Communist Party," said Helms, but his associations "strongly suggest that King harbored a strong sympathy for the Communist Party and its goals." Helms recalled that Robert Kennedy, during the Administration of his older brother, had authorized FBI wiretaps on King, and Helms told Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts that the Senator's "argument is with his dead brother who was President and his dead brother who was Attorney General...
...convincing feverish fits of illness and anguish add wonderful dimensions to Robespierre. We are fully prepared for his pathetic final scene of self discovery as he realizes he has forsaken the goals of the revolution, and the words of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen echo in his head as a bitter condemnation...
...impossible to forget his political background and decline to read between the frames. When Danton declaims. "Without bread there is no justice, peace or law," or when he tells Robespierre. "Come back to earth I have the only power the street," how can one not hear the echo of Lach Walesa? Like Walesa, Danton is an orator a reversed leader a man too busy for effete manners a man of the people...