Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forms of social welfare, will be the last to concede that the common good requires an uncommon standard of taste and expenditure for the physical appointments of government and of the public places of the city. Even those most vocal in support of governmnt support for the arts will resist, even reject the manifest fact that architecture and urban planning are the two arts which government by definition must be involved in, for better or for worse...
...without a peace conference. The longer you stay in Viet Nam, the better it suits Communism. In ten to 15 years time, China may be ready to take you on in any kind of war, and by that time your internal situation will have weakened your will to resist to such an extent that the war with China may turn out to be not half as long or as bloody as the "little war" in Viet...
...Pyrenees that has been the joint suzerainty of Spanish bishops and French rulers since the Middle Ages. None of the 46 French kings, emperors and presidents who preceded De Gaulle to the title had ever bothered to make a visit to Andorra. But Prince de Gaulle could not resist the temptation to play the role of feudal sovereign, and last week he went off to examine his fief...
...think it matters, though deprived of specific knowledge, the dates of decisions and actions, his decline becomes less formally tragic. I must apologize for this. His moral and geographic position in life hint at great tragedy and I could not resist suggesting a fury, an activity, a motion that does not exist. Anyway he was half waiting for them to come from America to seize him, to break him dead or force him back to America. Sometimes he said he was a citizen of the world, free, not speaking English. But he was waiting for them all the same. Whatever...
...demonstration was self-indulgent, irrelevant, and counterproductive. But if the Administration adopts a flexible response, and if anti-war protestors resist the irrational action that some spokesmen are urging then potentially damaging incidents can probably be avoided in the future...