Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bradley, LL.D., mayor of Los Angeles. You bind rifts in the fabric of your city, disproving Yeats' apocalyptic vision that "the center cannot hold...
...recently warned that Britain is "spot on course for disaster and still accelerating." He added: "Let me say quite clearly what I think disaster is. It is the destruction of the democratic and civilized life in this country by the continual rending of competitive greed at the fabric of society, fomented, encouraged and forced on its way by a leadership too incompetent or too lacking in resolution to provide the conditions in which we can avoid-in five years if we stick to our present course-finding ourselves at the mercy of some cheap dictatorship, whether of the right...
...somewhat better than Rodan but much, much worse than 2001. But once night falls and the fire begins, and you get used to it, the destruction acquires a weird beauty of its own. The flames lick out from the 81st floor, and punch holes--bam-bam-bam--in the fabric of the building as the pressure breaks open huge wounds in the glass skin of the building and huge windows pop in series. Later, as the fire becomes white hot, the spectral beauty of the scene increases, as down below the whole area becomes an abstract, pulsing mass...
...orphan" until massive American intervention strained Vietnamese families' traditional generosity beyond its capacity for resilience--will grow up peacefully. These children of the war, the "nieces and nephews" to whom Ho Chi Minh directed his last testament, will once again find a secure place in a secure social fabric. And because that fabric is no longer continually frayed by rifle-fire, members of every social class will at last be able to go about their business in peace. City workers, businessmen and shopkeepers, even Saigon government employees (many of them have apparently been kept on by the Provisional Revolutionary Government...
This dilemma produced not only tragedy for the Vietnamese but a series of mistakes, half-truths, lies and euphemisms that damaged the fabric of American society. Leaders first deceived themselves and then deceived the public. The American people, misled from the top and from the sides, underwrote an opaque conflict that neither generals nor Presidents quite comprehended. The tragedy was only heightened by the fact that the U.S. entered the war not for any base reasons, but out of an understandable desire-although many saw the conflict as merely a civil war-to thwart Communist aggression. Even Senator J. William...