Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure there are--I don't think you quite know until you resist. Mailer himself is not much of a revolutionary. I somehow feel once you introduce the word, you find yourself back treading or apologizing or something. The threats that have struck me, that have aroused some kind of gut feeling in me, have not been from the right but from the left--I don't know quite why this is, whether I'm so remote from the right that I don't take them seriously at all. I do take people who run the New York Review...
...Having gone through the dilemma of whether to obey or resist, I found myself, against my moral and spiritual conscience, serving as ordered in Viet Nam. As a surgical technician, mine was not a direct encounter with the fighting but a position in which I witnessed the brutality and absurdity of war. I could not help offering my understanding to those deserters and resisters who, according to their higher conscience, refused any association with the military murder machine. I cast my vote for total absolution for these...
...while, it appeared that Muskie would resist the temptation of the center and side with the more liberal faction of his staff. Recent events indicate that Muskie has succumbed. His "New Beginning" speech in which he announced his candidacy echoed the early 1960's rhetoric of John Kennedy and offered little of substance beyond a laundry list of the wrongs committed by the Nixon Administration. The fault here may not be Muskie's, but one common to all announcements of candidacy. Even if one grants this, however, the Maine Senator's recent pronouncements on amnesty for draft resistors and continuing...
...some of our advance work, the pros all said they were too soft for the job. They said women couldn't deal with politicians. I've found just the contrary. Advance men from Washington face instant hostility from local politicians, but those same politicians can't resist a female...
...junta announced that the Ghanaian Parliament had been dissolved, and that the constitution had been "withdrawn." Before flying to the neighboring Ivory Coast, Busia declared in London that the Ghanaian people would resist "this selfish and senseless coup and overthrow it." His statement was mostly wishful thinking. Accra was so quiet that the junta did not even bother to impose a curfew...