Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Answer: "l am not going to pass judgment on whether it is permitted or authorized under international law. It is a recognized fact that historically as well as presently, such actions are taken in the best interest of the countries involved...
...opposition bloc in the lower house, which is also dominated by Thieu favorites. "There have always been charges of corruption," said Tuyen, "but the open charges [of the priests] were just the last drop of water that makes the full glass overflow. President Thieu just has to make an answer...
Greenberg sticks by his guns. "I can answer to my conscience," he declares. "Were I to have known that this fuss would come up I would still have done the same thing, and I'm only sorry I didn't do it earlier." But conscience is not the point. The point is that altering the work of a dead artist - especially one of Smith's eminence - is an arrogant intrusion that borders on vandalism. We are entitled to the work as it left Smith's hand, warts and all. Perhaps the best thing to be said...
Each of the Richardsons is a thoughtful, intelligent person, and all are trying, in one way or another, to answer the basic question of how to live. They find an answer, although not a dramatic one, one that allows them to preserve their own calm without ignoring the powerful evils around them. "Only the moments exit, but not their imaginary combination," Laura says. "It's all a matter of balancing between the temptation to remember and the sympathetic magic of the still moment...
...human relationships in suggestive ways, but both his statement and his resolution are limited. There is a gentility to the selection of people, places and sentiments that can make the book seem lightweight. Not everyone is decent and thoughtful like the Richardsons, and Bromell doesn't have to answer for that. But there is probably more to life than keeping it, as Bromell suggests we should if we are to be happy, at just the slightest distance away...