Word: banishing
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...situation than it is as a comedy (though there are some nice bits, like a hotel lobby sign that reads, WELCOME KIWANIS DEAD). But Brooks has always been more of a muser than a tummler, and perhaps more depressive than he is manic. He asks us to banish the cha-cha-cha beat of conventional comedy from mind and bend to a slower rhythm. His pace is not that of a comic standing up at a microphone barking one-liners, but of an intelligent man sitting down by the fire mulling things over. And in this case offering...
...lighten the burden on working families, the tax system should be reconfigured so that relatively more is paid in income taxes and less in Social Security taxes. The government should also subsidize housing for a majority of young families with children. Rent vouchers in sufficient numbers would banish the specter of homelessness that haunts 10 million to 13 million low-income families. As for helping the middle class, the government should act as it did after World War II and offer low-interest mortgages to young families. Beginning in 1944, the Veterans Administration guaranteed 5 million home loans...
Rekunkov continued, "It has been decided to banish A.D. Sakharov from Moscow to a place that will put an end to his contacts with foreigners." The official looked up and added, "The place that has been selected is Gorky, which is off limits to foreigners. Please sign here to acknowledge that you have been informed of the decree's contents...
...asked why the decree was undated and why Brezhnev had not personally signed it. Rekunkov said something about "technicalities." I failed to ask who had made the decision to banish me and on what authority. I considered the entire proceeding completely illegal and thought it pointless to argue fine points of jurisprudence with those who obviously had no respect for the law. By maintaining this attitude all through my first weeks in Gorky, I may have created the inadvertent impression that I accepted their right to proceed in this totally unlawful manner...
Reflecting the influence of feminism, the report sharply criticizes Rome's relentless use of non-inclusive nouns and pronouns (for instance, in referring to believers as "men" or "sons"), which the American bishops have been trying to banish from their own documents. One problematic passage in the Catechism, though it was not specifically cited by Lipscomb's panel, introduces a list of heroic women in the Bible by terming them "weak and feeble." The U.S. bishops did not dispute the text's predictable conservatism on controversial moral issues like birth control, but they did urge that such subjects...