Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sources and most large debts. The members had been stung by the angry letters and editorials about their recent pay hike from $44,600 to $57,500. Proposed by the Ford Administration and supported by President Carter, it went into effect automatically on February 20 because Congress made no attempt to block it. This procedure had been set up precisely to avoid a situation under which Congress would directly be raising its own pay-but the lack of a vote angered the public as much as a vote might have...
...mild attempt to defend his comrades' failure to take a clear stand on human rights, Carrillo drew an analogy with his own 37 years in exile when "not one-millionth of the voices that are now raised to defend the dissidents of the East raised themselves [to defend] not only my rights but the rights of this country." Nonetheless, he added emotionally, "We do not hesitate in condemning with all our energy violations [of liberty and democracy] wherever they may occur, even when those responsible belong to parties that affirm socialist ideals. In the systems of socialist countries, what...
...commission is one of nine in the nation which attempt to solve energy, economic development and transportation problems arising on the regional level...
...plot involves the president of a tottering republic and his wife. They have just escaped an assassination attempt by anarchists as the play opens. Killed instead are a colonel sitting next to the president and the first lady's beloved dog, who dies of a heart attack. This rather dull premise is the funniest thing about the play. The audience is treated to 80 minutes of maunderings by the protagonists, the wife detailing her hatred for her husband and for the anarchists, and the president blathering endlessly to his mistress about his problems...
...Frye's main critical contributions has, in fact, been the attempt to separate literary criticism from belief. "A man may be a great poet and still be little better than an idiot in many of his personal attitudes," Frye is convinced. On one level, the mythological structures Frye sees as providing the framework for poetry transcend any question of belief. More generally, he maintains that "when belief is a matter of uncritical acceptance of the unprovable, the less we believe the better...