Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex for such simplism. Hearts and Minds discounts those who were genuinely confused or frightened by Communism, and who were being used by McCarthy and his cohort. It minimizes or patronizes those for whom patriotism was more than the fatuous wearing of a flag in a lapel, yet never understood why their sons were sent off to die. On occasion, it brilliantly illustrates America's grievous misunderstanding and savage oversimplification of the Viet Nam War. But, oversimplifying itself, it dismisses those who perceived the intricacies of history, who refused to condone totalitarianism simply because they loathed our Viet...
...ground. But if there comes a point when people feel there is no party that represents their views, then they have a way of taking action. I don't have any idea whether that time has come or not. I do know that the Republican Party is not understood by a great many people. There isn't an awareness that the Republican Party, its philosophy, is very much akin to what the polls reveal people are thinking and wanting. The party has got to get out from under the image created of it and stand for something...
...acknowledging the futility of the effort have nonetheless attempted to do just that. With the help of a number of natives and a few outsiders, they have produced in their March issue an uneven but absorbing investigation of a state the, despite the national attention it receives, remains little understood...
...P.L.O., and it was signed by no fewer than 71 Senators. When Senator Jackson offered his controversial amendment to link preferred trading status for Communist countries with freer emigration, notably for Soviet Jews?an intervention in Soviet domestic affairs neither advocated nor understood by much of the U.S. public and opposed by the White House?78 Senators and 289 members of the House joined in co-sponsoring...
...love each other and that A Woman Under the Influence is a tragic love story." Perhaps the crux of the movie is the scene where Mabel's husband, Nick, yields to outside pressures and agrees to commit her to a mental institution. Mabel tries to defend herself: "I always understood you and you always understood me--till death do us part, Nick...