Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Congress, where the quiescent antiwar forces had begun to attack again, was impressed with Nixon's flexibility. Senator Jacob Javits, who the week before had angrily dismissed Nixon's earlier policy as "sterile," called the new statement "a real step on the road to peace." Even Senate Foreign Relations Chairman William Fulbright called it "conciliatory on the whole," though he quickly added that "I would go further." A few unappeasable doves, of course, zeroed in on Nixon's failure to "limit the level of violence" in Viet Nam by unilaterally withdrawing troops. Said Senator George McGovern...
...that all sides in Viet Nam seem willing to relinquish rhetorical pronunciamentos for real bargaining, the distances separating the adversaries on specific issues can begin to be measured. There is no substantial gap-in principle at least-on a number of items. On others, grave differences and difficulties remain...
Because the same word means different things to each side, agreement can be more apparent than real. Both sides talk about a "neutral" South Viet Nam, for instance. To the Communists, this may mean the exclusion from government of any element that fought them. "Democracy" has different definitions for Asians and Americans, for Communists and nonCommunists...
...plot in poetry, T. S. Eliot has compared it to a lump of meat thrown a house dog by a burglar (the writer) to keep him busy while the real business is attended to?rifling the silver cupboard or dealing in the wizardry of words. Nabokov feels the same...
Lonely, the Prince passed an elegant note to a lovely electric tinkerbell. She brightened his head but, for all that, was entirely too real. This scared the naturally fastidious Prince, and she flew away...