Word: betrayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Singer's fiction and the one least frequently answered. Aaron offers tentative explanations to himself and others: loyalty to the past that Shosha shared with him, a mystic identification with her simplicity, even the conviction that Shosha is the one woman in the world who would never betray him. His act remains greater than the sum of its reasons...
JOHN DANFORTH. The Missouri Republican agonized over his vote up to the moment he cast it. Jewish friends in his home state argued repeatedly that if he were to support the package, he would betray their trust. But Carter, Vance, Brown, the Rockefeller brothers and even Jerry Ford, all called him to argue that the sales would serve the national interest. Danforth was also reminded by Missouri businessmen that the 60 F-15s wanted by Saudi Arabia would mean more jobs for the manufacturer, St. Louis-based McDonnell Douglas, already the largest (30,000) private employer in the state...
...point there. Bretécher's comic strips, not exactly thigh-slappers, suggest the wry, nervous humor of Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau. Her typically flabby, potato-nosed men, women and children often discourse eloquently on feminism, Freudianism, environmentalism, Marxism or some other millstone of doctrine, only to betray their soaring words with some bourgeois inconsistency. There is, for example, the porn-film producer who denounces his working class audience as "pigs" and says he panders to them only to help finance the kind of film he pines to make, a "political" film. Or the theater critic who guffaws...
...smooth and unruffled as he had been during the eleven years he spent as a millionaire Washington partygiver and rice broker who liked to hand out money and other favors to American politicians. Staring into the TV lights, he apologized for having inconvenienced his countrymen, promised not to "betray" their expectations and added, "I shall return in good health...
...press, the most dangerous effect of corporate domination has been the pretense of objectivity. The belief in an "objective," unbiased, impartial press is radically wrong. In even the most straight-forward reporting there is always a subtle slant, or room for interpretation, and a newspaper will betray its inclinations in a thousand small ways. We hear that the press must be "objective," because it is "powerful" and can influence "partisan" politics. But the press has never lacked power and political influence; only now power is concentrated and therefore more formidable. What the call for "objectivity" boils down...