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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forty-seven percent of the public would follow a prearranged withdrawal timetable, even if the Saigon government were to collapse as a result; only 38% would alter the schedule to save the Thieu regime. Among leaders, the commitment is even firmer: 56% opted to pull out in the face of a government disaster; only 31% agreed to stay...
...blow his brains out. It was associated with sin, and there had to be retribution." These days a movie or play can end, as Staircase does, with a homosexual couple still together or, as Boys in the Band winds up, with two squabbling male lovers trying desperately to save their relationship. Beyond that, the homosexual is a special kind of antihero; his emergence on center stage reflects the same sympathy for outsiders that has transformed oddballs and criminals from enemies into heroic rebels against society in such films as Bonnie and Clyde and Alice's Restaurant...
Roszak doesn't consider all of this; he worries that the technocracy will succeed in reducing all men to automatons, forevermore. No chance. It is too late now. Even the technocracy cannot save itself from...
According to various estimates, construction costs in the Greater Boston area are rising by up to 15 per cent a year. The preliminary designs for Shady Hill are now too expensive to construct, so University officials and architects have been reviewing the projects, trying to find ways to save money. L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, describes the situation like this...
...tear her tattered ensign down!" After a national outpouring of emotion, Congress quickly appropriated funds for the restoration of the frigate. It is still docked in Boston Harbor, a symbol of America's longtime affinity for tall ships and deep water. Poetry may have been enough to save a ship from the scrap heap then, but in an age more closely attuned to the demands of economics the sight of the Stars and Stripes fluttering from the flagstaff of a liner appears to be a luxury that is excessively costly to support...