Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, common during Stevenson's lifetime, and is not entirely unheard of today. On a more substantive level, some sexual undertones in the story were muffled, and some mildly profane or irreligious sentiments were excised or rendered inoffensive. These changes now seem fatuous, but they did not accomplish what Menikoff asserts: "A finished and artistically sophisticated novel was reduced to a vulgar and meretricious shadow of itself." Henry James read this supposedly mutilated text and praised "an art brought to a perfection." Critic George Lyman Kittredge went further, calling the work as published "almost as good a story as ever...
...only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. That general responsibility rests upon it, but it is the only one I can think of. The ways in which it is at liberty to accomplish this result (of interesting us) strike me as innumerable, and such as can only suffer from being marked out or fenced in by prescription...
...stems from the desire to protect the U.S. from a Soviet nuclear strike by relying on something more than the Kremlin's fear of American retaliation. Achieving such protection means finding a way to intercept Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in flight. To accomplish this, scientists have suggested adapting various superadvanced technologies involving lasers, particle beams or projectiles that can be aimed through space at moving objects...
...should have clearly defined political and military objectives. And we should know precisely how our forces can accomplish those clearly defined objectives." Weinberger criticized the Marines' untenable Beirut mission: "We must . . . not assign a combat mission to a force configured for peace keeping...
...will arouse bitter resistance from some of the best-entrenched lobbies in Washington (one senior Administration official comments wryly, "The starting presumption is that every one of the options will be politically impossible"); and 2) even if all the cuts now rumored could be enacted, they probably would not accomplish the Administration's goal of cutting the deficit roughly in half, to about $100 billion, by fiscal 1988 (planners no longer even talk about achieving a balanced budget during the Reagan presidency...