Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration, of course, is giving no public sign of interest in a compromise. It prefers to convey the impression that it can get the present proposal through the Senate; the House would then be no problem. Enough hints are being passed, however, to indicate that at the right moment in the next month or so, the White House and the Pentagon will agree to the modified ABM schedule...
...money it ex ports. What is more, it would be freed from legislative control by the present state government, which is often hostile to city demands. At the same time, says Mailer, if he is elected in November, "a small miracle would have happened. At that moment the city would have declared that it had lost faith in the old ways of solving political problems and that it wished to embark on a new conception of politics...
...many of the men who lived through McCarthy's murderous anti-intellectualism, he has come to believe that the first task of any academy is to uphold man's right to isolate himself. "A university can promote many things beside the intellectual enterprise," he says, "But I worry the moment it starts to abandon that enterprise for any reason." Barricading the Dow recruiter last year seemed to him a threatening disruption of the rules of liberal fair play. He is willing, however, to be a critical of the Right as of the Left. He has no truck for those parlour...
...fact that Cambridge probably has one of the higher concentrations of social scientists per square foot in the U. S.--the only real data on housing in the City is contained in the outdated 1960 census. Though the City government is now taking a new housing census, for the moment planners must use a lot of guesswork to figure out in what sections of the City and for what groups the housing shortage is most critical. Which would do the most good--50 units of housing for the elderly near Central Square or a similar number for younger families...
Strong's tales dwell on a particular moment in life--the time we at last come out onto the real battlefield, improperly equipped and scared, and take our first look around. The world is new and we are clean as a whistle. We take a lot of baths. We see things for the first bright time as near-grownups...