Word: things
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole thing was kind of strange," Danehy said, adding, "The workers didn't know about it until it was time to move ... For some reason it didn't manage to leak...
...ALSO TOO EASY to resign yourself to sadness. It is one thing to understand why the men who run Harvard behave as they do; it is altogether a different thing to condone it. It is wrong to believe that Derek Bok is evil, but it is just as wrong to believe that he is not responsible, for his actions. Bureaucrats, administrators and scholars may spend their lives pretending that they are not human, that their august positions relieve them of the need to subscribe to common human virtues--but in 30 years, when they will have grown old and face...
...inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers and sons-of-bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing...
...must explain my position on this. The political questions of fighting, violence, revolution--these are not my profession. I think that violence in politics is a very hard thing; it leads to a very large portion of blood, death...
...Brezhnev's leadership is more conservative. Today the policy is strength. Military defense. We don't know how effective we will be in war, but in peacetime--we have the greatest army and navy in the world. It [the military] seems to be the only thing in which we are most effective. Education, medicine, agriculture--we are not effective. Every year they get worse and worse...