Word: persisted
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Such riddles are the texture and the text of This Man Must Die, and they persist after the film. The actors who pose them are perfection. Each performs as if he were in full possession of a secret, but only one person has the solution-Chabrol-and he is not giving it away. Perhaps, he implies, there is more than one. Perhaps moral laws are subject to appeal. Perhaps, as Mallarme observed, "All thought emits a throw of the dice." Most film makers vainly attempt to have it both ways; Chabrol succeeds. This Man Must Die is as full...
...confidential British government study on the North Vietnamese economy, which TIME obtained last week, shows that behind Hanoi's stubborn determination to persist in the war lies a startlingly fragile economy...
Hanoi's problems are compounded by the troubles that persist in agriculture. Fully 70% of North Viet Nam's agricultural work force is female, a reflection of the losses the country has suffered in nine years of war with the French and another nine years of fighting for control of South Viet Nam. The new strains of "miracle rice" that have brought self-sufficiency in food supply to many other Asian nations (TIME, July 13) have failed to take hold in North Viet Nam, partly because workers assigned to collective farms are unwilling to give the new strains...
...only absolute insisted in Michael Walzer's Obligations: Essays on Disobedience. War, and Citizenship -the only demand made on the political actor-is to perceive that moral choices exist. Once made, these choices persist and shift over time, divide a man's allegiance, and estrange his comrades. Walzer's essays whatever their other lessons, brilliamly ill?minate these choices. They imaginatively accommodate political ethics to the native brand of social protest which emerged in the 60's. Walzer attempts here to order a discussion of recent history without detailed reference to that history...
...college student, and I can't help but weep for my country. I look around and see my brothers gunned down in the streets. Our "leaders" persist in pursuing an unjust war, and yet the Great Silent Majority remains silent. What does it take to make people see that this country is on the brink of disaster...