Word: enjoyable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, the only member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who seemed to enjoy what was going on was Chairman William Fulbright. Which was understandable, since the three experts invited to testify at his marathon foreign-policy hearings were his personal choices. The mission of the three-two psychiatrists and a psychologist-was one of the oddest in years: to put U.S. foreign policy on the analyst's couch...
...Dominican Republic could not have democracy without the United States; now I see we cannot have democracy with the United States." For democracy is more than a technically free election. It is a way of running a society. Until the Republic can build a democratic society, it cannot enjoy a genuinely democratic government. And there will be no democratic society until the U.S. ceases supporting and financing all the anti-democratic interest groups in that society...
Direct Assault. "Put away all the childish divisive things," the President commanded an audience of 6,500. "I do not think that those men who are out there fighting for us tonight think we should enjoy the luxury of fighting each other back home." In a direct assault on those of his congressional critics who are up for reelection, he urged voters to "read carefully the statements of every public official and of every candidate for every office. Ask yourselves, 'Is he helping the cause of his country, or is he advancing the cause of himself? Is he trying...
...work table for nights on end, compulsively churning out that prodigious torrent of words that is his own monument and literature's as well. Old Goriot, Lost Illusions, Louis Lambert, Droll Stories, Eugénie Grandet-these and other components of Comédie, his grand design, enjoy a special favor on the shelf of classics that not many others there can claim: they can be read today just for pleasure, by nonscholars, without respect to their literary pedigree...
...worse than most American companies would dare. The camera ambles along the Mekong River, through rice paddies, Saigon boulevards, and typhus hospitals, until finally, we see a line of soldiers marching through a field. There are long digressions on Saigon sanitation primitive Mco tribesmen ("they will probably never enjoy the benefits of advanced civilization"), and a Japanese-built dam. We are told that there are thousands of refugees streaming into Saigon, but we neveer see the details of a city slum. Although the film was made in 1965, when there were about 150,000 American soldiers in the country...