Word: national
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this new humiliation. On Capitol Hill, Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, proclaimed: "There can be only one answer for America-retaliation, retaliation, retaliation!" But the predominant reaction in Congress and across the U.S. was to smother outrage with common-sense restraint. In this, the nation took its cue from Richard Nixon...
...IMPROVEMENT OF AIRWAYS AND AIRPORTS AND DEVELOPMENT OF MASS TRANSIT. Financed by various user charges instead of general tax revenue, this program would help unsnarl and speed up the nation's clogged transportation systems...
...feel that everyone should and must be made aware of this fact. This is why I support of anti-ROTC programs. The country is continually proceeding toward a "Spartan democracy." Whether one wishes to accept it or not, the military has its hands in every part of this American nation, economically, socially, and otherwise. And the fact that it was all done so subtly amazes me. As a youngster I used to picture the military as a big "Army, Navy and Air Force" which defended our nation against all foes. Now I see it eating 60 per cent...
Perhaps eliminating ROTC from the campus does nothing to the overall military growth, but at least it focuses attention on that growth in hopes that something may be done before it becomes too cancercous for the nation...
...pretty bourgeois girl to whom he is affianced for the love of Olga, a dark-eyed peasant girl. But after a time he realizes that he wants to marry her and live peacefully with her. (Moveover he, though an aristocrat, wants to flee to America, the middle-class nation par excellence.) Olga, for her part, loses sight of a dominant urge to climb to riches and power by involving herself in true-love affairs. Though both characters come to know the deepest urges of their characters by the film's end, opposing urges push them into contrary actions; the frustration...