Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's beacon light to the world has dimmed. Above all, Ford could not help conveying what his countrymen also sense-that the way out of the maze is technological as well as political. That is a burden on presidential leadership no other Chief Executive has had to bear...
...though it conspicuously lacks the abundant gifts of R & H. Here are the stomping, thigh-slapping, open-air dances styled in the mode of Agnes de Mille. Here are the strong, silent heroes who conquered the land, together with their deferential but spunky helpmeets, whose chief tasks were to bear children and get the vittles on the table. It is all sentimentally endearing, and it marks one giant step backward for the American musical...
...most of her time here, she dealt with it by finding satisfying outlets for her energies unrelated to her job. She has been working, for instance, on a novel about World War II and the years following it in Germany. The first four chapters are finished and they bear, on the surface, a strong resemblance to her own early life...
...seeing there is love, in being seen there is abhorrence. One grins, trying to bear the pain of being seen. But not just anyone can be someone who only looks. If the one who is looked at looks back, then the person who was looking becomes the one who is looked...
...weakest. The father is a self-proclaimed atheist and Marxist, but a sternly Puritan advocate of the work ethic, who, it turns out, is also a patron of dirty movies. The mother is an indulgent Christian who takes the first opportunity to renounce any responsibility she may bear for her son's condition: Alan was a fine boy until the Devil came along, she says. It is enough to personify Dionysus and Apollo; the stage buckles under the added weight of Marx and Christ...