Word: breach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hartman's appeal has been pending since last spring, when he contended that the decision by Maurice D. Kilbridge, dean of the GSD, not to renew his contract was based on personal and political considerations and constituted a breach of academic due process...
...death of a child was commonplace in Victorian days," explains Stephens, a curate trained in psychiatry and psychology. "Now it is so rare that we try to pretend it never happens. When it does, society turns away from those who are suffering, because their tears can breach our defenses...
...talk and thus in a sense to see each other once more. China began to capture the American imagination, as it has many times before, and all sorts of Americans-including the President-started to talk about traveling there. In a world of diplomatic and military deadlocks, the sudden breach in the Great Wall was a relief...
...graver problem is the pervading sense of anomie, a social disintegration that has created a breach with mainland supporters, including other Indian groups. The invasion euphoria was inevitably dissipated by the exigencies of day-to-day survival. Then tragedy happened a few months after the occupation when the eight-year-old daughter of the group's chief spokesman, Richard Oakes, fell to her death down a three-story stairwell. Already under suspicion because of his handling of donations, Oakes left the island...
...black specialists, insists that this was not done. Curator Doty maintains with equal vigor that he did talk to these specialists, but it seems to have been a matter more of consultation than collaboration. Last January the B.E.C.C. announced a "massive boycott" of the Whitney show, claiming a breach of faith. Andrews himself barred Doty from his studio...