Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate issue: Yes, I do think Asian scholars are complicit, in or to be more exact responsible in some sense for, the government's China policy, even though they "quietly ... voiced objection to the China policy while continuing to work within the government in an advisory role." It seems to me that there are two main aspects of this: the moral and the practical...
...described RUS as being in a kind of experimental stage. Its exact role remains uncertain in the administration's view. But Debbie Batts and RUS do not share this cautious attitude. They feel that students should have a voice in all areas of college government. They want to be part of the "input," and part of the decision-making as well. They want more openness and candor, not tokenism and condescension, from the administration, say RUS members...
...label the comparison between the U.S. intervention in Viet Nam and the Soviet Union's intervention in Czechoslovakia [Sept. 20] "hardly exact, since the U.S. intervened in Viet Nam in order to rescue an established government from subversion while the Soviets invaded a friendly neighbor in order to undermine a government that was struggling to gain a measure of independence and freedom." Yet I'm sure the Soviets feel that they are the ones who are rescuing an established regime from subversion, and that it is the U.S. who is undermining a struggle for independence...
...This idea has floated around for years in New York and other cities," Sizer said, commenting that he did not know "its exact currency" in New York
Later Rudd was asked if the Columbia movement wasn't nihilistic. No, he answered; their struggle was based on a clearcut Marxian dialectic. One had, on one hand, the Columbia ruling structure, he explained. Complete opposition to this would give rise to the exact opposite, which was, he said, a national democratic socialism. Just why national democratic socialism has to be the exact opposite of the Columbia ruling structure isn't at all clear to me. And it seems to me that Rudd decided it was so because it would best fit his argument...