Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What happens, however, when Americans take their dreams abroad is that ideals become dogma, and heralds of freedom turn into prophets spouting the froth of revelation. What Americans have lost sight of both at home and in their foreign relations is an ingredient of liberalism which Bowles repeatedly stresses: seeing the other person's point of view, tolerating minority opinion, allowing for differences of perspective. "This cold war," Bowles points out, "is hardly the one-sided affair some people would have us believe...
Have you looked at them? Have you listened to them? They don't merely act and talk like caricatures, they are caricatures! That's what's so terrifying. Put any one of them on a stage, and one would take them seriously for one minute! They think in cliches, they talk in them, they even feel in them--and, brother, that's an achievement! Their existence is one great cliche that they carry about with them like a snail in his little house--and they live...
Fairbank criticized the Administration for failing to take a stand on the issue of self-determination for the Formosans, and predicted that "the pull of the mainland will eventually be a very powerful one." If China continues to expand industrially and increase its national power, he said, "it will become too hot for us to hang on to Taiwan in the future...
...Anyway, you can learn about more things when you take chemistry or bio or zo," said the girl in the blue jumper. "So you take an art course and they teach you how to look at a painting. It's not going to help you when you get married...
...comparison with the arguments against a uniform room rate, arguments in its favor take on in general a secondary aspect. Certainly there are many which can be readily eliminated by a modification of the present system. One of the major objections to retaining rents as they are is that the deconversion which will result from moving upperclassmen into Quincy House would necessitate a drastic raise in the upper rent bracket. However, it appears that this possibility has been overemphasized. While deconversion may indeed occasion a small general increase in rents, most of the newly-vacated space will be taken...