Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hair [Oct. 17], T.E. Kalem describes the protests of the '60s as "yowls of a generation that was over privileged, overindulged and woefully underdisciplined." Can it be that there is yet someone who is unaware that we were a generation called on to kill for no reason we understood? Our yowls were directed at the idea that swearing and nudity were indecent, but killing and torturing were fine...
Moynihan, who has written on the international terrorist network in L'Express and New York Magazine, said terrorism must be understood as a political phenomenon. "The point to repeat," Moynihan added, "is that terrorism is totalitarianism in action...
...British colonization was a Pyrrhic success. To a great extent, British policy failed in Ireland and continues to fail in Northern Ireland. To be specific, it is the English who have failed. As a nation, they have never understood "those impossible people," the Irish, nor truly cared to, and the Irish dislike of the English is legendary. At every turn of English policy towards Ireland--with Essex, with Cromwell, with the 'black and tans' (infamous British in the war of independence)--there is ceaseless bloodshed, rebellion and repression...
...White House to talk some more. Carter also chatted with Mary Diehl about her hobby of collecting arrowheads, and accepted a big hug from her granddaughter Wendy, 11. For Woody Diehl, the occasion was "beautiful." Said he after Carter's departure: "He's a farmer. He understood exactly what we meant...
...main Protestant mistake has been to confuse democracy with loyalty, and so make the latter a precondition to the former. The main Catholic mistake has been to confuse unification with Catholicism, fueling the fears of the Protestants. This has led to a political violence little understood outside Ulster: an intense, brutal fratricidal violence. The divided religious sympathies of a single working class are at its root. These have been distorted in a tragic process of political misapprehension...