Word: remarkable
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...Minh, the communist leader, voiced to a French diplomat on the eve of his war with France in 1946. "You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, but in the end I will win and you will lose." I heard roughly the same remark from General Vo Nguyen Giap, the eloquent North Vietnamese commander, when I asked him during an interview in Hanoi in 1990 how long he would have gone on fighting against the U.S. He thundered, "Another 20, maybe 100 years, as long as it took to win, regardless of cost...
That’s a sad remark to make at the end of a man’s tenure as president of this prestigious university. Yet I have an ineffable sense of pity for Rudenstine and his predicament. I can imagine him, sitting on his desert island (wireless Internet?), hoping against hope that the protesters will run out of food, or interest, before graduation. Anything so that he can just go on into the world in peace...
...campaign’s self-destruction in the final months of the campaign is well-documented—a series of mishaps which included Goldwater’s statement at the convention, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!” and his remark that the Vietnamese Communists should be exposed by “defoliating that country’s forests with low-yield atomic weapons in a way that would not endanger life”—Before the Storm ultimately fails to define exactly how Goldwater?...
...next series demonstrates marital and domestic bliss through photographs of perfectly manicured lawns, gleaming kitchen appliances, content housewives and masculine husbands. Just when the viewer is about to look back on those good old days with fondness, he is jilted out of his daydream after reading a remark about why a husband loved his wife: “She was submissive and she worshiped him, and it was for those reasons that he had loved...
...honor as an actor, saying that Crowe's acting skills have been underrated. This produces a murmur of assent from the ladies, until the speaker adds that by this he means that Crowe had obviously fooled Meg Ryan... The defenders of The Man Who Would Be Oscar drown this remark derisively. There is no mocking allowed about Russell...