Word: facet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Parchment over Steel. Any man who can oversee and become intimately involved with every facet of such a sprawlingly disparate world, and who can deal with opera singers besides, needs the stamina of a Siegfried, the charm...
...correspondents poses special problems-somewhat like but still different from the task of covering the other side in World War II. Most of the reporting has to be done on the periphery, with techniques that have been well tested for years in the process of covering Communist China. Every facet of that kind of reporting was brought to bear for this week's cover story on the other side's dilemma and the shadowy figure who runs the North Vietnamese war machine, General Vo Nguyen Giap...
...that Harvard students are simultaneously asking for more independence and more "spoon feeding." Yet these two requests are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, and both are a reflection of our approach to education. Perhaps what they are saying is this: If you insist on surveying every facet of medical knowledge, please give us some indication of what you as the faculty believe is important and what you consider unimportant. For if you do this and provide us with a little more time for study and reflection, perhaps we can participate in a more active ways...
Since the 17th century, under czar and commissar alike, a central facet of Russian foreign policy has been the drive toward the Middle East. Nicholas II almost secured both sides of the Dardanelles link to the Mediterranean with British help in World War I, but the Russian Revolution ended that. Stalin made an effort during World War II but was rebuffed. Not until Nikita Khrushchev came to absolute power in 1955 did the Soviet push begin to make headway...
Cooler, shrewder and no great civil rights advocate at the time, Johnson was soon admitted to the Senate establishment. Despite early differences, the two men became close. "Johnson was the first Southern Senator I could talk to," Humphrey said later. With Johnson as mentor-a facet of their relationship that has held constant-Humphrey learned to make his peace with his elders, to accept compromise and delay as the price of worthwhile legislation. Humphrey's contribution to the partnership was to be Johnson's link to the liberal wing in his drive for a commanding position...