Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 15 years the internal problems of this nation have grown geometrically. The American people know more, are troubled more. Hints of strain back then have become deep divisions in society. Yet Nixon has not tended the shop. He has not, in fact, worked hard enough at the job. That does not mean a President must shout and heave like Lyndon Johnson. But a President must stay in there and slug away from dawn to night. Take breaks, certainly. But all these experiments in running a government from the banks of the Pedernales or the Pacific shore are exercises...
Consigned to the Past...
...there was a deep and exciting awareness that a watershed had been reached. After 20 years of uninterrupted rule, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats prepared to take their places on the opposition benches. Said the conservative Bayern Kurier: "The political generation of postwar times finally belongs to the past...
...bind" any dissenting member of the Harvard community, faculty or otherwise (unless it be the Harvard Corporation, which has meted out what many consider political punishment for some of last year's events). Students, for example, have not been "bound" or "spoken for" by the numerous polls over the past few years on issues such as the war or the U.S. Presidency. There is, indeed, a widespread sense that the U.S. government itself or particular people therein, including its highest official, are not speaking for oneself. This role being vigorously denied to the elected leaders of the nation, how much...
...those who opposed the resolution were sincere in their protestation that they wanted to make the "most effective" statement against the war, they might have arranged some better way of putting themselves on private record once the formal vote was past. As it was, the slapstick convocation only reinforced the sense of disorder and confusion. If the turbulent meetings of the last nine months have shown nothing else, they have proved how much the Faculty needs sweeping legislative reform...