Word: intact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some sentimentalists, nursing a murky prevision of man as a fat smudge in a chair hovering before a cyclopean TV, with only his massive eyes and a few fingers intact for fixing the vertical hold or clutching a beer, will recall that the point of racing, after all, was once to stand in a crowd to watch actual horses running around the actual track or putting down actual cash at an actual betting window...
...that he thought it must apply to everything and consulted him on literary matters. Gerald did not really respond to his friend's work. Indeed, it was only on rereading Tender Is the Night years later that he recognized that pages and pages of detail had been lifted intact from his life...
...Government agency that emerged from the Viet Nam debacle with its honor largely intact was the CIA. Its director in the years of escalation was John McCone, a conservative Republican who believed the U.S. had to try for a knockout blow in Viet Nam or get out. He argued constantly against the consensus policy of gradual escalation...
...possible tactics, even Weatherman tactics, are only propaganda and organizing tools. None of them in itself impedes the war machine. They make the war too costly, and thus the war may end. but the war machine will remain intact. The criterion for judging an action should be, therefore, in terms of building a movement that will be able to destroy the machine itself. The criterion must be dependent upon how many of who never you want to see, to hear and to agree become catalyzed to move to the level of consciousness that the particular tactic embodies...
Marx's prediction to the contrary, the American state remains intact as ever, but one of its minor irritants has begun to wither away. Harvard's rule placing a two-year limit on Faculty leaves of absence has been stretched beyond recognition for the benefit of Henry A. Kissinger, President Nixon's advisor for national security affairs...