Word: exertion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempts to save these men gave moral impetus to the American Left, and they still exert a powerful undertow in Sacco and Vanzetti, an Italian film. Sacco, a fishmonger, and Vanzetti, a shoemaker, have always been simultaneously visible and obscure, martyrs but not men. As played by Gian Maria Volonte and Riccardo Cucciolla, they are credible and pathetic-good, bewildered souls whom history has scorched by its proximity. As they watch themselves railroaded to the electric chair, they shout in anger, then grow numb, and finally reach a plane of philosophy that forgives their executioners and redeems their adopted country...
Easy Up, Hard Down. The temptation to link Nixon's Peking trip to the possibility of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam is being deliberately discouraged by Washington officials. It would be naive, they say, to expect Chinese Premier Chou En-lai to exert pressure on Hanoi to make concessions to the U.S. By merely agreeing to sit down with Nixon while the U.S. is involved in battle with Communist forces, Chou is straining China's relations with North Viet Nam. Any pressure from Peking might cause Hanoi to turn to Moscow for more help in its long...
...permanent legacies of the war will be the increase in the expectations of the Vietnamese people. That is the other side of the Honda phenomenon. The Honda is a handicap from the cost and saving side. But it may also be a strong force motivating the economy to exert itself. Economic development depends on rising expectations and on the ability and the willingness of the country to expend effort. Despite the fact that government policies have militated against national saving, the attitude of the individual, as one observes him in the country and the cities, is directed to industry rather...
...took a pot-shot at the Cambridge-Washington circuit, saying that the University's contribution to society will come through socially relevant research and "not through trying to exert political pressure or writing speeches for candidates or advising men in important public positions...
...Friendly Persuasion. The Greek government has since made clear that it has no intention of restoring democracy any time soon. Earlier this year investigators from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee concluded that "the policy of friendly persuasion has clearly failed. Indeed, the regime seems to have been able to exert more leverage on us than we have been willing to exert on the regime." Worse still was the fact that American assistance, particularly after the resumption of full aid in September, was looked upon by the Greek people as American support of one of the world's nastier regimes...