Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while doing research for his bestselling book The Green Berets, said that U.S. troopers were helpless to prevent the Vietnamese from committing atrocities. Nevertheless, he added, "we have greatly increased our own casualties in an effort not to make a move that would kill civilians. I've seen what happens to Americans who get captured by the Viet Cong...
...Sciences' budget contains a substantial deficit this year, and will probably run one next year too. The Federation's suggestions would cost Harvard $700,000 at a time when, as President Pusey said last week, "We're going to see more red ink around the 'University than we've seen in the past 20 years...
...here to stay, and stay, and stay." Fully 70% of the country's foreign trade is with Red China. Chinese movies are shown in the cinemas. Some 7,000 Chinese tractors plow Albania's collective farms. At noon every day in Tirana, Chinese delegations can be seen leaving ministries and official buildings, and boarding special buses with curtained windows to take them to a guarded villa overlooking the city...
Though not articulate himself, Hopper could quote Emerson: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." Hopper was a genius of this kind; he painted not only what Americans have seen from the corners of their eyes, but what they have dimly thought and felt about it. People sitting on porches or by windows, the silent, sun-drenched Cape Cod houses or rows of blank-faced Manhattan store fronts on an early Sunday morning-all are vignettes glimpsed and pondered by a reflective traveler...
...customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...