Word: questionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Genuine differences exist over the key question of withdrawal of non-South Vietnamese forces. The N.L.F. and Hanoi demand unconditional evacuation of U.S. and allied troops with international supervision of the exodus. Washington wants joint withdrawal of U.S., allied and North Vietnamese troops with outside monitoring. While the N.L.F. tacitly acknowledges the presence of North Vietnamese forces south of the DMZ, the latest Communist plan merely proposes that the matter of "Vietnamese" military forces in South Viet Nam should be negotiated "by the Vietnamese parties among themselves." The N.L.F. hinted, however, that it might be willing to ask North Vietnamese...
Lifetime Income. In the end, practically no one could be found to speak up to excuse conduct that was, at very best, grossly improper. "He has not committed the ultimate evil of taking a bribe," said Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther. "But that misses the point. There is a question about the appearance of virtue on the court." In fact, Fortas' action had been even more ill-judged than was at first realized. Not only had he received $20,000 from Louis Wolfson's foundation in 1966-not giving it back until eleven months later, after Wolfson...
...First, Ford is a master at the sudden juxtaposition of emotional quantities. Serious scenes will turn into comic ones, then revert suddenly to introspection. The greatness of this is that Ford carries the audience with him totally; we are rarely conscious of these shifts and instead experience them without question or intellectual judgment. In Donovan's Reef (1963)--a good film for examining this--the mood of each scene in the second half shifts and each transition suggests a new depth to the influence of past tradition on the present...
...petition reads in part: "Although many of us question the use of disruptive tactics, we believe that those students who participated in the occupation of University Hall acted from strong moral and political convictions about the nature of the university community and American society...
...situation, but there was no reply, and he still doesn't know whether she received it. It is six years now that the young man has lived in Italy, and he has five brown children. He still doesn't know if he's really living. Occasionally he forgets the question...