Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hiring practices showed the reluctance of many not only to abandon strict meritocratic selection, but also to grant tenure to professors whose teaching methods and views on affirmative action differed from their...
...possibly a murderer and a fixer of ball games. But if he did not want all that written down for posterity, he did not otherwise deny who and what he was. He flaunted his nature in the same way he flaunted his talent on the playing field -- with vicious abandon. His only virtue was his total lack of hypocrisy. His isolation when the cheering stopped was the price he proudly paid for greatness, and he would mouth no pieties to assuage his loneliness...
...Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...
Then, and only then, will the voters who have stayed away from the ballot box because they have been forgotten send Newt and his pack of devils back home. Until then, look for the new sign in front of the Capitol building: "Abandon hope all yea who enter here...
...Clinton ran as an activist President and appears unlikely to abandon his agenda. Instead, he will need to radically reform the way he looks at issues...