Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cornell, supposedly building to a renaissance this year, generated almost unbelievable power much sooner than expected, smashing Penn...
...Indigo buntings flit in the trees and goldfinches play below. Says Schlesinger with rare emotion, "Look, a long-billed marsh wren." He raises his binoculars, studies the scene for long seconds, breathing cool morning air, humbled by the beauty before him in a way that his old adversaries in power never succeeded in humbling...
...have a system that works with two equal centers of power?" Schlesinger asks, his eyes absorbing the graceful arcs of a broad-winged hawk, his mind back on Washington...
...going to be a great power if we keep going as we are," Schlesinger says. "The Soviet Union's intentions are not benign. So many people grew up after the Berlin crisis. They would not accept the true face of Communism in Hanoi and elsewhere. It used to be so much fun to discover our own moral defects. It is not so much fun any longer. These people labored under the notion that if we were sufficiently lovable, others would be drawn to us. Our young had so much security in the postwar world that they felt...
...generation of Soviet leaders will be more inclined to use the awesome power they have accumulated," he says. "We entice the Soviets to take action. They misunderstand our positions. The United States is not giving the signals of determination it should any place in the world...