Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, we were playing with symbols of revolution, and of course this was not the real thing. But what do you expect from upper-middle-class-socio-economic kids. Still, Henry Kissinger said that revolutions succeed when the people who are being revolted against do not take the revolutionaries seriously. So they took us seriously when we were only dealing with symbols. They sent Dartmouth students to jail for 30 days, and they fired on young people in Berkeley with shotguns filled with buckshot and birdshot and rock salt, and they killed one man--a white man. Black men died...
...altogether too early to tell whether he will succeed. To most of the people in the House he is still that beligerent stranger. There is also the question of his stamina, or at least of his continuing interest. For as was to be expected he is not completely at home in this office, as he is not in any other. "I still have trouble introducing myself in the dinning room," he says. "Sometimes people don't know when I'm being ironic." Well, then, presenting Alan Heimert, All-American, Un-American Anti-Absolutist...
...evil. But the SDS demands can be met SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life out of me' is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
...complex and global challenge into creaky mechanisms that were set up to cope with such a situation. Now, inevitably, they perform erratically: not well enough to appease the desires of the impatient ones, not to mention the rebels who would anyhow not want these institutions to succeed; not firmly enough for those who see in the challenge a threat; not badly enough for most people to see how serious the problem is. And so the confrontation comes. If the moment is well chosen, if the issues or demands are of sufficient resonance, if the response aggravates divisions...
...contrasting theory, of course, holds that the U.S. effort in Viet Nam has demonstrated that "wars of liberation" cannot succeed cheaply and has stiffened anti-Communist sentiment along China's rim. Some U.S. officials believe that a new U.S. policy would vitiate these benefits by handing Mao a "success" against the U.S. and seeming to signal a lessening of American firmness throughout Asia. Advocates against change also argue that a softer U.S. line would help Maoism recover from its self-inflicted domestic wounds, and would eventually lead the U.S. to break its commitment to Taiwan...