Word: result
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extremely skilled kinetic psychologist who knows exactly how to walk alongside or in front of the "mark" (victim) so that he is forced to slow down or turn aside, right into the wire. This is called "framing the mark," and brushing against the mark is pretty crude-it can result in unpleasant attention...
...much power should a President have to commit the U.S. overseas? The answer is less than clear. Most Presidents, afraid that too many restrictions would tie their hands in relations with foreign governments, interpret their mandate as broadly as possible. As a result of the nation's experience in Viet Nam, however, there is a move in Congress to narrow the presidential reach. Indeed, Idaho's Senator Frank Church has gone so far as to warn that U.S. presidential power is leading toward "Cae-sarism." "The Roman Caesars," he told his colleagues recently, "did not spring full blown...
Like the Johnson Administration before him, President Nixon opposed the measure as an attempt to tie the Executive's hands in dealing with foreign countries. At best, the Nixon people felt, it might result in confusion in foreign chancelleries. At worst, it might hobble the execution of foreign policy and perhaps even interfere with the Paris peace negotiations. Democratic Senator Gale McGee, one of the resolution's few active opponents, said that it was "loaded with mischief-making...
...issue will not be settled by last week's resolution or by a dozen like it, and the debate promises to continue long after peace comes in Viet Nam. As a result of Viet Nam, many in Congress are distrustful of any President's wisdom and determined to deny him even the military means, let alone the authority, to intervene unilaterally. One thing is certain: Richard Nixon will be watched more closely by Congress than have been any of his predecessors of the past few decades...
Beatrice and Benedick, then, are far and away the most engrossing personages in the play. And even in productions in which the serious plot is tedious, it is essential that the man and woman who play this sharp-tongued pair be evenly matched--otherwise the result is fatally unbalanced...