Word: greatnesse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of his schemes to water Peru's deserts, tame its Andean mountains and populate its Amazonian jungles sound visionary to an extreme. Peruvians are at least willing to let him try. "We must not be afraid of greatness," he says. "We have lost the habit of thinking on...
According to Kissinger, de Gaulle believes that, if France is to reclaim her greatness, she must "regain--wherever possible--the right of independent decision."
But Bradley is the immortal. Without question, he is the honest college basketball player in America; he dispelled any doubts on this issue by scoring 42 points against the nation's number one team. Michigan, in the ECAC holiday tournament. Princeton lost by two points, but Bradley convinced even the...
Radiated Force. There is a feeling that, as Harvard Historian Henry S. Hughes puts it, today's world has "little tolerance of greatness," and that in an era of computers, expert teams and government by consensus, the Churchillian kind of leadership may never again assert itself. But one of...
A Roving Commission. For the Churchills, greatness has been a birthright. Winston was born and raised amid the splendors of Blenheim Palace, the 320-room mansion that a grateful nation bestowed on his ancestor, John Churchill, the first Duke of Marlborough. School, by contrast, bored him; he was a poor...