Word: power
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every year since 1893, U.S. businessmen and farmers have sold enough goods overseas to take in more money than the nation has paid for its im ports. That trade surplus has long been the foundation of U.S. global economic power. Over the past two decades, it has amounted to $79 billion, greatly diminishing the chronic balance of pay ments deficits caused by foreign aid and investment, overseas tourist traffic and military spending...
...found himself nudged into near oblivion by the fellow-traveling leftist press. Such experiences toughened his mind and help to explain his standing with today's young left. He was untainted either by success or by the envy and rancor that marks the "liberal" who is merely a power worshiper out of power...
...feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death." But even in a biography more notable for detail than for new perceptions, the accumulated O'Neill agonies still produce a power beyond themselves, just as they do in his plays...
When he was drinking, O'Neill dreamed of living on a dark estate enclosed by a great fence with barred and guarded gates. Within, he would enjoy all the prerequisites of comfort and happiness, including, as Agnes Boulton reported it, unlimited power "over ideas; over things; over people." He came nearest to this role of father-mother deity in his writing, which he once referred to rather chillingly as "my vacation from living...
...Faculty vote approving the final section of Dunlop's report would be a mandate increasing the already enormous power of the Dean of the Faculty. It would encourage him to set up new administrative apparatus that would accumulate data on departmental costs, to take a bigger role in allocating new professorships, and to call on the carpet those departments that make economically unsound policy decisions...