Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer he spoke, the broader his attack became. He started by specifically chastising House Republicans for votes on particular issues, then expanded his assault to include the "old Republican buggy [that] can go only one way and that is backwards, downhill." Johnson enjoyed himself immensely. On the way back to Washington and in subsequent appearances signing consumer-protection legislation, he was as perky and peppy as his mutt Yuki...
...your brief story on the results of the recent Vietnam Referendum, a blanket statement is made about "the Harvard students and Faculty members who organized the Referendum" being "particularly surprised by the dovish stance of students at Emmanuel College ..." This particular participant was not at all surprised, and is inclined to regard this surprise itself as based on inexperience, perhaps snobbery. Emmanuel College students have been at discussions of disarmament and peace in this area (as well as active on the race front), apparently with more pertinacity than local visibility. David Riesman '31 Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences
Some of this inequity was not deliberate, Fisher feels. "The problems near at hand," he says, "are the ones that bother you." But the natural conflicts between two associated islands of dramatically different size, and with no particular common interests, were compounded by the person of Bradshaw, "who behaves as if he were paranoid," Fisher says. "He is fearful of an attempt to overthrow his government; he has political opponents locked in jail; he has emergency powers on; he has suspended all individual rights; people can be locked up indefinitely without charges being brought against them...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greeneland lies somewhere between Purgatory and Hell, and in this particular film, it is in Haiti, where a skilled cast (including Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness...
...When they got no takers, they withdrew, hurling behind them their ultimate epithet: "Sons of Americans!" Earlier in the day, villagers had reported to their 140-man defense force that some Viet Cong were roaming through the surrounding fields. But that was hardly unusual, or cause for any particular alarm. The Viet Cong had steadily harassed Dak Son, and four times this year had mounted an attack and tried to overrun it; each time they had been stopped short of the defense perimeter and thrown back...