Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dinh Diem in 1963. Malaysia already trains South Vietnamese in police work and American troops in jungle techniques. Warned by the Tunku that Communist China will certainly capture all of Southeast Asia if the war is lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said in Viet Nam: "We mean to stick it out." The Vice President's only defeat of the two-day Malaysian tour came in a golf match at the hands of Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak ("I'd like a little bit of technical aid from Malaysia," quipped Hubert). During a tour...
...root, patriotism bore no such scar. In 1578, during the Dutch-Flemish revolt against Spanish rule, the word patriot was. first used to mean one who represents people and country against the king. By the 18th century, patriotism denoted love of a free country, devotion to human rights as well as nationalism. To Stephen Decatur's famous toast "Our country may she always be right; but our country right or wrong" Carl Schurz later replied: "When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." Who decides what is right and what is wrong? The Schurz position...
...glasses almost like a childish madman"). Some of his statements are pure bathos; when a blackboard falls on a girl's desk, Kozol asks: "Was she saying with those eyes which looked down so steadily, as if with apology, that she really felt very sorry and did not mean to have gotten her small head in the way of the board?" Kozol's indignation is also a bit belated; he admits that he remained friendly with fellow teachers he knew to be bigots, followed their advice not to see his pupils after school hours. Even after being fired...
Even this year's campaign is fought along such lines. While the results may mean the end of the DeGuglielmo administration, there is relatively little he can do to make his administration an issue. The election must be fought neighborhood by neighborhood, in Brattle Street, in North and East Cambridge, and throughout the City...
Translated into pragmatic politics, this could well mean a vote against DeGuglielmo if a showdown occurs. During the past two years, the City Manager has clearly taken the leading role in the City. The majority on the Council has usually stood behind decisions with little dissent; only the minority four have seriously questioned...