Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Survival, Kissinger warns, "depends not only on our strength, but also on our ability to recognize [and fight] aggression" in all its forms. "In the nuclear age, by the time a threat has become unambiguous it may be too late to resist...
Robert Lagave's angelic face was his misfortune. Men and women alike seemed unable to keep their hands or affections off him. His rule of life was never to resist an impulse, and he grew up to be nothing but "a pet animal trained to eat from many hands." He was only 23, but since his 18th birthday "had been agonizingly aware that he was growing older." When he fell ill in Paris, a princess offered her villa in Cannes for his convalescence. Instead, Robert chose to go back to his ancestral home in tiny Viridis in the somnolent...
...proudly and confessedly a nationalist, in a nation whose oldtimers can recall when annexation by the U.S. was still a live political issue. His special concern is how to bind together the 4,000-mile-long, east-west ribbon that is populated Canada, weaving it strongly enough to resist the fraying influences of the north-south pull of economics and geography. How to make a nation out of Canada has in fact been the historic preoccupation of both of Canada's major parties almost to the exclusion of doctrinaire, right-left, capitalism-socialism struggles. Canada's first Prime...
...emotional issue of foreign relations, subtle differences mark the party attitudes. Liberals cherish the British Commonwealth as a purely sentimental unifying influence. John Diefenbaker (though he is the first Tory Prime Minister with a non-British name) loves Britain-and sees it as a useful lever to help Canada resist U.S. domination. In London for a Commonwealth Conference soon after his election, Diefenbaker invited his fellow Prime Ministers to send their finance ministers to Ottawa this fall to talk up Commonwealth trade. And back in Ottawa, he called on Canadians to shift 15% of their U.S. purchase orders to British...
...feasible, to do something about it. For example, he makes writers, producers and directors aware of complaint trends and of requests by such groups as the American Foundation for the Blind, e.g., don't use cliches like "blind-drunk" and "blind as a bat." But he tries to resist most demands by touchy viewers, even risks letting "damn" or "hell" stay in a script if it seems unforced. "If we don't reflect the real world around us," he says, "radio and TV are going to be awfully dull, and competitively, we'll get clobbered...