Word: unpopularities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is most tragic about Vietnam is he decade of wasted opportunity that brought us to our present plight," Merle Fainsod, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, told members of Radcliffe's graduating class in his Baccalaureate address yesterday. "We have supported a succession of unpopular military regimes in South Vietnam because they were opposed to the Communists; we have only fitfully and sporadically addressed ourselves to the social grievances which movements like the Viet Cong to bring peasants and others to their cause," he said...
...poll so few votes that they will only underscore the weakness of their cause. Nor are the people who are running in Democratic (or occasionally Republican) primaries against pro-Administration Congressmen likely to achieve many victories. Howard Morgan's decisive loss in Oregon suggests that opposition to an admittedly unpopular war is not enough to overcome the advantages held by incumbent candidates...
...President realizes already that his actions are widely unpopular, and he will soon realize, if he doesn't already, that the results of these actions are likely to be even more unpopular. However, he also knows that the more harmful unpopularity comes from those who prefer escalation so withdrawal. If the present policy were ruled out as an alternative, the public would prefer expansion of the war to withdrawal by a 2-1 margin, according to the Stanford-Chicago poll...
...judges awarded eight prizes-each more unpopular than the next. Several critics suggested that a ninth prize be awarded to the "worst judges in the history of the Cannes Film Festival." Others posted a petition denouncing the judges for "selecting the two most vulgar films, Alfie and Signore e Signori." Shrugged Judge Loren: "You can't please everybody." Agreed departing Judge Ustinov, relieved to be relieved of his assignment: "I am going to take a sabbatical and go back to being a crook...
Chicago's school problems are immense enough to make any superintendent unpopular. The system is short of money, requires 1,700 new teachers each year simply as replacements, needs still more buildings, has an influx of Southern Negroes and an outgo of suburban-bound whites that has pushed the nonwhite proportion of students up to 52% and makes meaningful integration difficult. Yet Willis has vastly aggravated his problems by arrogantly dismissing all criticism, stifling staff initiative, and running the system as a one-man show...