Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill heard some sweet and unusual music. One new member approached him and said, "I'm a party man, Mr. Speaker." Another confided, "I'm interested in seeing the President get re-elected." O'Neill marveled at how "the pendulum has swung back from independence to party responsibility." Wright also detected a shift in the reformers of 1974 and 1976. "A lot of them have matured," he said. "Many now are prone to listen to the leadership, instead of taking pride in being mavericks." Democratic House Whip John Brademas found a related change. "What we are seeing...
...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...
John Kennedy '40 has been subject to such swings of the pendulum since his death in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Until now, his history has been written by those for whom his sudden passing was a milestone in their lives. What were you doing the day Kennedy was shot? For contemporaries, his assassination was a traumatic, indeed a cathartic experience; they remember the day vividly. For today's younger generation, however, the memory of Kennedy is a vague one. Young people who have no personal recollection of the man must rely on history for their perspective--and, to date...
...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