Word: weight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second-Class Berths. Whether intentionally or not, Gomulka's words set off an unprecedented debate among hard-lining Poles and many of the 250 foreign Communist guests at their Party Congress. The nonruling parties of Western Europe, Gomulka announced haughtily, should not expect to carry any weight with Eastern Europe's Communist rulers, "who carry the direct responsibility for the development of power in their countries as well as of the socialist system...
...through as genial a bunch of sadomasochists as one could hope to meet. "Dr." Willie Davis, so named because he "made the women feel so good"; Max McGee, the eternal bachelor, dreaming of "a herd of broadies grazing on martinis"; Bart Starr, the resident nice guy. The types, allowing weight for age, can be found in all the best schoolboy fiction...
...existential weight of this experience is obvious. In an age that just lets you do this thing to yourself, you should let it happen
LIFTON'S approach, then, has a certain intuitive and empirical weight. But in seeking to pinpoint one key symbol and stretch it into a foundation for China's chaos, he strains his hypothesis. Lifton has an exceptional command of the data on the Cultural Revolution, and his scheme explains most of its history. But few of his observations (as he readily admits in the introduction) cannot be explained by political, sociological and economic theses. This would not argue against his approach if it were not for one thing: the tremendous difficulty of verifying generalizations about the psychological make...
First, I pore over the statistics for the previous week, carefully studying rosters for weight losses in key players and other vital indicators...