Word: pendulum
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...will best judge Kennedy in calmer days when time has made the tragic and the grotesque at least bearable." These words indicated Bradlee's healthy disrespect for historians. After all, they are predators to trade. They pick and chew over great lives and great events. As time passes, the pendulum swings and historical opinion changes...
...photocopied in the novel so that the fictional Manuel, and all of the real Manuels who may be involved in the struggle some day, will know what their elders were fighting against. But there is no real attempt to examine the causes of right-wing terror or the pendulum swing left to counterterror...
...that practiced by the Screwery. It paralyzed the country with out materially advancing the revolution aries' aims - and brought on the current repression. There have been some signs that the Videla regime would like to govern in a more moderate fashion, when extremists let them. And the pendulum swings on. - John Show
Most experts agree that the current national flurry of general education reforms marks a swing of the pendulum back to the way curricula were before '60's campus activists forced many university administrations to abolish or loosen course requirements. Now that campuses are quiet again, faculties are starting to regret their loss of control over students' educations. Many of the reasons cited for curricular reforms sound like the same ones the fathers of general education offered in the early 1900s at places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston...
...pendulum has gone a little too far in taking away intelligence from law enforcement. We have enemies within and without. There are people in the United States who would sell out the country. We need a greater source of intelligence," Kelly said...