Word: resistable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different forms of government. In 18th century England and France, budding capitalists strove with a waning monarchical power to establish democracy, or a working balance between the perquisites of government and the perquisites of merchant princes. In Germany and Japan, where the peasantry was too weak or disunited to resist, the same power struggle generated fascism-a conservative revolution imposed from the top. In China and Russia, political schemers carefully marshaled peasant discontent, smoldering over centuries, and used it to overthrow the old order -creating Communism...
...Wynne, the British salesman who in fact ran secrets for Russian Spy Oleg Penkovsky before the Soviets nabbed them both in 1962. Proctor-Gould may or may not be in the intelligence game himself (he, of course, denies it), but Frayn, a satiric columnist for the London Observer, cannot resist giving him a bizarre cover job: he recruits everyday Russians for appearance on Western lecture circuits and TV. "The press and television in Britain and America," Proctor-Gould explains blandly, "are crying out for good human material...
...atheistic regime that tortured and drove Roman Catholic nuns from the Chinese mainland. Particularly tragic is the effect on the morale of young American soldiers who are fighting in Viet Nam. If their own church leaders favor accommodation with Communists, why should they give up their lives to resist them...
Peabody said that he was convinced that Hanoi would not come to the conference table "If the North Vietnamese feel that the American will to resist (aggression) can be undermined...
...Pusey conceded that faith cannot be willed and salvation cannot be found in the study of theology. But, he pleaded, "can we not now, when occasionally we sense the Holy Spirit, undertake to be a little less luminous in our doubts, a little more ready to receive than to resist...