Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here tonight to state as a matter of public policy that the housing crisis is not simply an unfortunate but predictable result of 'the law of supply and demand" or "an economic fact of life." We cannot be satisfied merely to remark that the lack of adequate housing at reasonable prices is a natural consequence of the fact that more people want to live in Cambridge than the number of units available can absorb. New construction to expand the supply of housing is a need for the highest priority, but not simply so that more people can live here...
...This lack of White House support has undoubtedly helped to slow the progress of strong anti-university bills, but it might not have been as effective were it not for the fact that college administrators themselves--in their testimony before Congress as well as in their actions this spring--have been trying to assure Congress that colleges have no intention of allowing disruptions of their operations...
...senseless and brutal; its plot as much as skeleton device that barely holds the film together (the characters' journey through alien rural setting becomes very boring); its characters as much figures for the camera to follow, rather than sensibilities whose interaction with a setting must be described. The lack of personal development makes Les Carabiniers as disjointed and difficult as Weekend. But the broadness of Weekend's subject is cause for alarm. Weekend shows the impossibility for Godard of making films in a society which is destroying its humanity...
...then, the horror of the question: "Who are you?" That came this year to our class harder than to any other class. And few of us believe in ourselves enough any more to refuse to answer it. If anything made us different these four years it was our lack of a past--not a generation without a future, as George Wald said, but a generation without a past. We should not be told that all this had happened before, that we should learn from history. Even if these things had happened before, they had never happened to us before...
...tough" is a winner's game either. Still, if the tactical lessons of Munich seem less and less simple to apply, its moral implications are not. The tragic events of history, so often in retrospect accepted as inevitable, were shaped by human will and wisdom-or the lack of them...