Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conviction that the North can be battered into some kind of submission--as the President apparently believes--is sheer folly. The Soviet Union and a strife-torn Communist China will not permit even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
Directors are undertaking instead a sort of radial reorganization of experience in which the elements of a story occur in no necessary order and the sense of succession subsides in the illusion of a permanent present. Fantasy heightens reality. Cause and effect are denied, and in the more extreme experiments such as in Last Year at Marienbad, a fundamental reorientation in time and space takes shape. Even as it strives to entertain, the new cinema is part of the broad cultural movement of an age that is searching for a contemporary redefinition of man's place in the universe...
Monro adds to this his own stamina and omnipresence. One high member of the Administration, who has been preoccupied with academic policy questions, often consults informally with Monro late in the evening: "It would never occur to me that he wouldn't be there [in his office] working." Monro also benefits from an exceptionally close relationship with two of the most important men in the University -- the President and the Dean of the Faculty...
...predictably, Bohlen has the professional's skepticism about the effectiveness of the amateur diplomat, the politician. "Personal diplomacy is a relatively new thing," he reflects. "It only really started with the Second World War. Before that it was almost unheard of and when it did occur, usually catastrophic. It's still pretty dangerous. It's easy to lean back after dinner, sip some wine and say all right I'll give you this and you give me that' but later on you often regret...
Shuman's amendment would permit the committee to make a limited number of nominations when vacancies occur, but would leave the final decision up to the whole membership...