Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betancourt, the most maddening element in the situation is that the sponsors who bankroll and control the F.A.L.N. are easily identifiable. Most sit in full view as members of federal and state legislatures, protected by congressional immunity. In 1960, a federal Deputy led mobs that turned Caracas into a battleground for seven days. Two other Deputies were involved in bloody rebellions at Carupano and Puerto Ca-bello last year. All claimed congressional immunity-and all but one got away with...
...Tigar plays the Warriors neighbor--an old fishwife of a man--and he is in his element. His senile craftiness is equalled only by his engagingly simpleminded delight in the machinations of others...
...merely, as the guerrillas' North Vietnamese Boss Ho Chi Minh said recently, "to wait out the Americans." The South Vietnamese government and its 14,000 U.S. military "advisers" pin their hopes on an integrated, long-term plan that aims at isolating and driving out the Viet Cong. Basic element of the government's battle plan is to resettle almost the entire rural population in some 12,000 "strategic hamlets...
Religious Elements. Ultimately, the individual can see himself only in the eyes of others?and can see himself great or free only in the reflection of the eye of God. All past attempts to assert the worth of the individual without measuring him against a higher cause have failed, have in the end only diminished him. Nietzsche's rhapsodic worship of man's will, of which Hitler was an absurd and gruesome caricature, fits no more into the true Western tradition than does the soul's meek expectation of nirvana or the patient Russian submission to worldly tyranny...
Inseparable from this freedom, Conway said, is "the striving after excellence." At Harvard, a place "impressed by all outstanding achievement," the striving after excellence is "the final liberating element," for in the College "anti-intellectualism cannot be found; no one need fear to express an idea, and no one need conceal the fact that he has brains...