Word: harshly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's troubles distress the U.S. not only because they presage a France weak and divided as of old (see THE WORLD). In a less concrete sense, it is disconcerting because what is happening in France can be seen as a harsh paradigm of events the world over. In many places, the familiar leaders seem challenged, the apparently certain is in doubt. What one revolutionary era called "the people," and another referred to as "the masses," are being heard from emphatically and violently...
...sure, the U.S. has no intention of forcing upon the still fragile South Vietnamese government a coalition that, by including Communists, might well swallow it. Nonetheless, any settlement that emerges from the Paris talks will ultimately have to reflect the harsh reality of the battlefield, and that reality may be the one that now prevails: a standoff. The U.S. cannot expect to get the kind of settlement it would if the enemy had been routed or were in any immediate danger of defeat. Thus, in all likelihood, some provision will eventually have to be made to give the Communists representation...
...liberal Kuchel by branding the G.O.P. Senate whip a traitor to the party. Item from a pamphlet claiming Kuchel sided with Democrats 61% of the time: "Would you have voted for the wasteful war-on-pov-erty programs and Great Society welfare schemes?" Rafferty is a man of harsh rhetoric who spatters his speeches with attacks on filth, flapdoodle, an archy and treason. Along with his blitz krieg of acrimony, he has loosed a horde of acronyms. The Friends of Rafferty have been incorporated as F.O.R...
French universities suffer from vast overcrowding (4,000 seats in the Sorbonne library for 40,000 students), a shortage of professors, medieval teaching methods, and harsh examinations designed to weed out students wholesale. On top of that, students bemoan antiquated curriculums. Most resented of all is France's grotesquely centralized educational bureaucracy. Last week, most major French universities or departments followed the lead of the University of Strasbourg and simply decided to secede from the system, declaring themselves autonomous...
...primitive man, nature was so harsh and powerful that he deeply respected and even worshiped it. He did the environment very little damage. But technological man, master of the atom and soon the moon, is so aware of his strength that he is unaware of his weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...