Word: attainability
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...girl learns to her great sorrow just how right she was in that library: Ethics--in their day-to-day application and not just the textbook variety--are excruciatingly complex. The balance between the demands of personal happiness and the demands of bourgeois propriety is well-neigh impossible to attain. Most people load the scales on the side on propriety. Wedding in Blood is a movie about two people living Thoreauian lives of quiet desperation who choose to throw the scales in the other direction, becoming willing murderers along...
...winning film, "All About Eve." Bacall repeats her performance for this television adaptation along with another veteran from the Broadway show, Penny Fuller. Bacall plays Margo Channing, a seasoned theater star and Fuller is Eve Harrington, the conniving novice out to win everything Margo has worked so hard to attain, including her fiance and her fame. Probably the best show this week. Ch. 7, 9:00 p.m. 2 hours...
Worried that SALT I could enable the Soviets to attain this advantage, some Senators demanded that SALT II redress the U.S.'s numerical inferiority. With the American superiority in the number of warheads, the demand was plainly unreasonable and unrealistic; it was intended, at least by some Senators, to toughen the U.S. bargaining position. The Soviets responded with a tough line of their own. Their negotiators reportedly declared that they would agree to numerical missile equality with the U.S. only if Washington 1) removed its nuclear-submarine bases from Scotland and Spain, 2) reduced the number of its aircraft...
...class from the perspective of the 1950s, Negro Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier wrote a scathing critique of what he called the black bourgeoisie. He derided its typical member as "half a man in a white man's country." The bourgeoisie, he concluded, "suffers from nothingness because when Negroes attain middle-class status, their lives generally lose both content and significance...
...test justified its priority and expense. India's new nuclear role will probably establish the country as an increasingly potent political force on the Asian subcontinent and among the Third World nations. Ever since China exploded its own bomb in 1964, India has felt the need to attain nuclear status both to remain competitive with Peking and to enhance its security from outside attack. That status will become markedly real if India decides to perfect its ongoing rocketry program by constructing an effective delivery system. Moreover, said Indian Defense Minister Jagjivan Ram in response to Western criticism, the test...