Word: repeatly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your Essay on history's tendency to repeat itself [Nov. 21]: in the past two decades history has taught us that we must respect another country's right to self-determination. Failure on our part to recognize this aspiration only leads to intransigence by the emerging nation. That is why our position in Nicaragua could very well lead us into a repetition of Viet...
...Harvard's highest ranking Republican been threatened with return to the Charles? Because he has refused to accept the myths that all the other president's men so willingly repeat. He says that defense spending and tax cuts--like those Reagan has pushed through--cause deficits. He says that deficits push up interest rates. Nothing beyond Ec 10 and nothing Reagan didn't insist before he took office...
...former Chancellor Willy Brandt and the SPD can indulge in irresponsibility while in opposition, but economic recovery may not come soon to West Germany, thus opening the way for a return to power, if Helmut Kohl's center right coalition cannot persist. While the socialists of Italy and France repeat the lessons of deterrence, the social Democrats of northern and Protestant Europe will be entranced with nuclear free schemes, "dissolving the blocs," and moving away from that "primitive anticommunist" of the bellicose Americans...
...easier to draw a line between the President and his critics. They are joined by a common fear: that history will repeat itself. They disagree as to precisely what history is about to be repeated, but everyone is quick to raise the specter of the return of some dreaded "another." The critics see another Viet Nam here, another round of gunboat diplomacy (carried out by another Teddy Roosevelt) there. Administration officials are quoted as explaining that the Grenada invasion was meant variously to prevent "another Iran," "another Beirut"(!), "another Nicaragua" or "another Suriname." (There is irony here. Suriname had fallen...
When Psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan saw this kind of repetition neurosis, he called it parataxic distortion. We call it learning from history. With a dutiful invocation of Santayana's banality about those doomed to repeat the past, we have permitted the ghosts of history to enter our debates and to control them...