Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even with the expected price increases, the wines should be a good value. Indeed, shippers predict that Americans, who already consume nearly 20% of all French wine exports, will buy more than ever this year. After all, what American wine lover could resist laying down a great bottle carrying the label...
...expectation that by winning the support of the rural population it could eventually isolate and overwhelm the cities," and that the NLF would "remain a powerful and effective force which cannot be dislodged from its constituency so long as its constituency exists." But the guerillas would be unable to resist the "modernizing instruments of bombs and artillery" which are "largely, if not exclusively [responsible for] the movement of the population into the cities." Thus, "if the 'direct application of mechanical and conventional power' takes place on such a massive scale as to produce a massive migration from countryside to city...
...course, that there aren't interesting things once in a while. This week there just happens to be a dearth of them. Ramon Jiminez, who successfully led the students and teachers of Hostos Community College in New York to resist the closing of the East's only bilingual college will speak on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Blackstone Community School about the student movement in Puerto Rico; but aside from that--which I have the uneasy feeling may be in Spanish--it just doesn't look as if much is going on this week...
...many things to too many people can deprive a family of its own integrity. Such is the theme of Frank Hogan's recent play Finn MacKool, in which campaigning is equated with the devil's own work. Under a satanic compulsion they are too vain to resist, a Kennedy-like family drives one member after another into the hell of politics. In fact, campaigning is more purgatory than hades, and families are more likely to be consumed by television coverage than hellfire. Still, the extensive use of the family as campaigners smacks of cynical exploitation, a show-business...
Down in Mississippi, said Lawyer Nathaniel Jones bitterly, "those who resist change now realize that they can accomplish more by manipulating the legal system and the guys with the black robes than if they go out publicly in the white robes of the K.K.K." Jones, who is general counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had good reason for his angry observation. Last week the N.A.A.C.P. narrowly averted financial disaster. Ironically for the organization that so often used the law and its own national resources to break segregation in one Southern town after another, the trouble...