Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...examine their consciences. It is easier for them to live within a traditional framework that has been imposed on them and that they have accepted, even though they know it is false and unhealthy." He does not qualify these generalizations by quoting the people he categorizes, nor does he attempt to make their bitterness understandable with even a thumbnail sketch of the age-old conflict between Irish Catholics and British Protestants. The book's narrative begins in August 1976 with the founding of the Peace People movement, but Deutsch gives only passing, superficial treatment to the history of bloodshed...
When Ron Taussig's 45-yd. field goal attempt fell short with seven seconds remaining in the game at the Yale Bowl, Columbia's bid for an upset of the slumping Elis rolled away, and the teams settled in a 3-3 deadlock...
Berg for example, is clearly ascinated by Perkin's odd relations with women--describing in detail his platonic ove for Elizabeth Lemmon, his stromy marriage, and his fights with Zelda Fitzgerald and Aline Berstein. Thomas Wolfe's lover--but does not attempt to find in them some secret to Perkins' great eye for fine writers. Rather, Berg simply presents his information about Maxwell Perkins the man, and then moves on to describe his relations with his authors and the conservative elite at Charles Scribners Sons...
...anachronistic choice to become a "saint" by sacrificing her youth to the care of a cripple. She questions the purity of her motives--makes her saintliness appear sinful and her vices sacremental. In retrospect she sees her decision to lose her virginity, for instance, as nothing but an attempt to shock her father into attention. Incestuous lovehate fro him made her sleep with his (only) disciple; perhaps she even intended to trigger her father's heart attack a few months later...
Carter used a lot of his own energy in an attempt to keep the energy of his country flowing. In so doing he will enter the history books as having achieved one of two things: either the termination of a 30-year-old war or the destruction of a 30-year-old nation...