Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these United States by the ruling orders lacks even the usual G-string Harvard is so accomplished at weaving. But I wonder--what next? Under the benevolent leer of Derek Bok's official portrait what edifying spectacles shall we be treated to anon? Live fornication shows, nude female wrestling, bear baiting, cock fights, gladiatorial contests--my Lord, the mind fairly boggles...
...years ago that a young John Kennedy made his famous inaugural pledge: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend or oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." Even then, that stirring pledge was unrealistic, as the nation was soon to learn in Indochina. But today such a commitment would be unthinkable, and not only because of the enormous social and economic costs it would entail. Slowly at first, then more rapidly, there has been an erosion...
...more inevitable - and hardly reassuring. But it is obvious that the U.S. must scale down its enormous and costly worldwide commitments, many of them undertaken at that time of abnormal American predominance. The U.S. has realized that it does not have unlimited economic strength to "pay any price, bear any burden" and that even if it did, the effort would eventually be self-defeating. At his press conference last week, Henry Kissinger asserted that the U.S. "cannot pursue a policy of selective reliability," suggesting that all commitments are equally imperative (later in the conference he conceded that not "every part...
...those services, New Yorkers bear skyscraper-high taxes. A family of four with a taxable income of $15,000 pays $179 a year in city income tax, in addition to $476 in state income tax and hefty sales, cigarette and gasoline taxes. Not many citizens think that they are getting their money's worth...
...Duels. Logic - or perhaps clear thinking is the better phrase - is the key to the success of both pictures. One does not want to bear down too heavily on the point lest the fun go out of the watching; but the reason both films work so well is that Lester is satirizing not merely that outdated movie form, the heavily romanticized historical spectacle, but history itself. When Lester's people fall off horses or into mud puddles, scramble about trying to have a picnic on a battlement, or try to duel on an icy river where they cannot even...