Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be a shambles." I am curious to know how he can be so positive of the negative results of an experiment without first putting it to the test. Wouldn't it be horrible if, by some fluke of course, the entire program worked? Think, for a moment, of the consequences of a microcosm that would be allowed to determine the proper path for itself. That would be a terrible thing in a democracy. Betsy Ross would probably have dropped a stitch at the mere thought, and that long-haired rebel George Washington just might have fallen...
...Cambridge's nine city councillors, pausing for a moment outside the City Hall elevator, ruminated on Cambridge politics: "You know, its pretty easy to get five votes together to fire a man, but it's hard to find five votes to hire another man." That just about summed up the past five month's action in City Hall...
...half years of infighting--is between the five councillors who voted to fire DeGuglielmo, and the former City Manager's three supporters on the Council--Daniel J. Hayes Jr., Bernard Goldberg, and Cornelia B. Wheeler. As DeGuglielmo becomes more a memory, this chasm may be bridge, but for the moment it still exists...
...seem strange to advocate a dissolution of power-centers in the U.S. precisely at a moment when many countries all over the world are moving towards a strong executive on the American model. But these other countries are usually in the stage of their development when they are busy building a base of material wealth, and may need strong direction. The United States has established such a base and is now engaged in restructuring her society along more equitable lines, a process that would seem to involve organic change with a priority on co-operation, rather than change induced...
...hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection but fears that it is mere breast-beating, soothing us in a painful moment of national self-recognition and easing the transition to normalcy, where the National Rifle Association has more to say than the overwhelming majority of Americans about our gun laws...