Word: pastings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, the Thieu regime is the strongest that South Viet Nam has had in the past six years. Even if the U.S. wanted to abandon Thieu-and there is no sign whatever that it does -it might not be able to do so for lack of a substitute. "If the Americans destroy Thieu," says one high-ranking foreign diplomat in Saigon, "the government of South Viet Nam will collapse utterly. This is the Communists' strategy." While Thieu cannot be expected to cave in on the coalition issue, it would obviously be impossible to achieve a settlement...
...been indiscreet in counseling the foundation. "The strategy is to get me off the court," he wrote Parvin, a Los Angeles multimillionaire businessman. The Justice's bitterness was aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, which has been investigating the Parvin Foundation's finances for the past three years. Apparently Douglas believed that IRS agents were more intent on embarrassing him than on checking into the foundation's tax-exempt status...
...history. The way he upholds democracy and criticizes the German Far Left can't be judged by American standards. Some of those opposed to Grass would say that it is foolish to believe that democracy will work in Germany now when it has failed miserably every time in the past. But Grass's answer is that German democracy has failed in the past because the German people left politics up to the politicians, were willing to give the Chancellor too much power, were not really interested in their democracy. If those faults can now be corrected, then democracy, which Grass...
...becomes briefly ridiculous and self-parodying: "Although I have the key she gave me, I forgot to ask her where she sleeps at night." Then he becomes tragically resigned, remembering with detachment his love for "the thirty-year-old debutante, whispering to ghosts in the room ...Jacqueline with the past in her eyes."He faces his failure sorrowfully: "It tears a boy's heart away, loving girls who don't care about love. " And he sees others in his own jaded condition; as he tells "morning girl," "Your lips have got some color now, a little too much color...
...identity crises ever recorded. Apparently the book is out to capture what the Harvard experience feels like rather than what happened here last year, but the verbal talent to bring off such an enterprise is nowhere to be found in Three Thirty Three. The editors have consistently let slip past their red pencils verbosity ("the University has long been cognizant of the fact that the issues involved transcend the sphere of economics"), turgid metaphor ("Girls dot the large lecture halls like raisins in raisin bread"), and embarrassing gaffes in tone (Kenny McBain's "I have never lost a certain fondness...