Word: resistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger '50 represent a tactical retreat prompted by recent developments in Mozambique, Angola and Rhodesia. Before 1974, the United States was committed to supporting white-dominated minority regimes in southern Africa that are both repressive and exploitative. When the Angolan civil war broke out, the U.S. chose to resist Soviet influence rather than support a national liberation movement, allying itself with South Africa's armies against the MPLA...
...should extend moral judgements to other student activities. If the United States Army is evil then the federal government that controls it is likewise evil. But no one would suggest that Harvard should prevent students from taking summer internships in the federal government. If Harvard is obliged to resist "complicity" in the evil allegedly perpetrated by the American military, shouldn't it also proscribe students from government employment, campaign work for pro-military political candidates, and any number of other supposedly immoral activities? To carry out the full implications of the majority position would require a huge amount of interference...
...first, Sutherland bridled at being treated like a puppet. "But why resist?" he concluded. "The man's a genius." Says Fellini: "I don't have problems with actors-they have problems with me. 'Donaldino' has done very well...
...intrusion of free time. External organization is important to Jenny--later on, as she begins to fall apart, she tells herself, "If you force everything to be as usual, then it will be." She is thrown back into the scene of her unhappy past and finds it hard to resist the unwelcome memories that surface...
When a Harvard student tells you that he made $4200 last summer, and then tells you that he can help you land the same kind of job this summer, it's hard to resist the offer...