Word: weak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's troubles distress the U.S. not only because they presage a France weak and divided as of old (see THE WORLD). In a less concrete sense, it is disconcerting because what is happening in France can be seen as a harsh paradigm of events the world over. In many places, the familiar leaders seem challenged, the apparently certain is in doubt. What one revolutionary era called "the people," and another referred to as "the masses," are being heard from emphatically and violently...
...creative person contributes to his society. It's legitimate for a weak person to drop out--it's all he can do. But meditation will give him more strength to achieve goals through legitimate means...
...outlook is varied. In some areas, Harvard will be as strong as ever--in others dangerously weak. Much depends on how well the gaps will be filled by the sophomores...
...universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum's weak Popular Front government in 1936. By the weekend, the fast-spreading wave of strikes had squeezed transportation to a crawl, crippled mail service and both Paris airports, and spread into dozens of manufacturing industries. Barring the remote possibility that the government could find a way to reverse the trend immediately, France faced...
...exist among human beings outside their private lives. As opposed to those who play it cool, the theater at its passionate best plays it nothing but hot. With molten fury it welds mind to mind, heart to heart, skin to skin, and soul to soul. Whenever the theater is weak, it is because man is denying man and shielding his feeblest self from the pain, power, majesty and glory of existence. But this is the only language that great drama ever spoke, and will again speak in a great theatrical...