Word: happen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of the old fears are still present, if often more thoughtfully expressed; Author-Editor Virginius Dabney worries about "racial amalgamation," and carefully quotes Arnold Toynbee as his authority that it is bound to happen. Southern white liberals are still often attacked as traitors, and more fiercely denounced by segregationists than even Negro civil rights leaders; waitresses have been known to serve Negroes but not their white companions...
...stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...
Well, it was bound to happen...
...situation in which the United States no longer supports rotten governments. Right now it may be more fruitful to try to discover a way to preserve traditional American interests while avoiding the unpleasant prospects that seem to face the U.S. in Vietnam. The question is not what should happen, but what is the least bad alternative...
...Junk. As three battalions of South Vietnamese infantry pushed toward Viet An, an outpost 31 miles south of Danang, they passed a sign erected by the Communist Viet Cong. It read: "A 250,000-man French expeditionary corps came this way and was destroyed. Don't let it happen to you." They didn't. Though wave upon wave of U.S. fighter-bombers swept in before the attack with bombs and rockets, the weather turned bad for air support when the assault actually began. By midday, the attack force had reached the Viet Cong's main line...