Word: failings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thought that we would be able to stop Hershey's machine. Hershey's real problem though was not how to find 500,000 men to send to Vietnam but how to channel the other 11,000,000 into activities for the national interest. The Resistance strategy was bound to fail but a lot was learned about what not to do in the future...
...more than they lose in the process. One idea should certainly be tried out in the hundreds of lower-middle-class schools that are now in many ways just as inferior as those in black ghettos; these schools should be upgraded while being integrated. Instead of punishing communities that fail to integrate, for example, the Federal Government might well reward those that do so by increasing their subsidies. Equally important, the cities must soon combine help for black ghettos with more aid for blue-collar neighborhoods-better garbage collections, recreational facilities and police protection...
...game with many and time-consuming phases. Modern love affairs are reminiscent, according to Sebastian de Grazia, of business agreements: "No frills, no flowers, no time wasted on elaborate compliments, verses and lengthy seductions, no complications, and no scenes, please." Those who complain that girls these days are "easy" fail to understand that in a hectic age girls must accelerate to save time for both themselves and their male friends. People have not stopped making love any more than they have stopped eating. But-to extend the surprisingly adequate parallel with the joys of gastronomy-less time is devoted...
Mature Chekhov is unbelievably difficult to do well in performance. Amateur productions can almost always be counted on to fail; professional productions fail far more often than not. This Three Sisters, as directed by Michael Kahn, must be adjudged a success; only one of the leading roles comes off less than satisfactorily...
...Aldrin have so much trouble penetrating the lunar surface beyond a few inches with his core sampler? Why was he able to plant the stand for the solar wind experiment only a few feet away with such ease? Why did the blast from the LM's engine fail to carve out even a small crater...