Word: broached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...open governance issue, being fought by both alumni and students, has had remarkably little assistance from the council. Steadfastly refusing to broach any issues which seem political, such as divestment or the union drive, the council has been wary of joining in on a movement--led by campus activists--for a more accountable Corporation. The council plans to be silent on these critical issues in its upcoming meeting indicates its fear of challenging the administration--and reflects the abdication of its role as the student's political representative...
...Geertz's formualtion to the Northern United States in the years just preceeding the Civil War? And furthermore, is he even using Geertz's conception of ideology in the way Geertz intended? Such questions, ones that Foner himself no doubt had to confront, are ones which history concentrators cannot broach...
...prosecution's efforts were further damaged, perhaps fatally, in April when Judge John Collins felt it necessary to clarify for Merola the legal theory on which the case would be presented. Merola wanted to broach two theories of what the jurors could consider to be larceny; Collins allowed them to weigh only one. Says a retired Manhattan judge who followed the trial: "It is pretty embarrassing for the prosecutor to have the judge straighten out for him the indictment and the legal theory behind it." The sensation of what was primarily a dozy trial came just after the jury began...
Other changes have made journalists more willing to broach such previously unmentionable subjects. A succession of public scandals involving politicians in the '60s and '70s (including Senator Edward Kennedy's car accident at Chappaquiddick, which resulted in the death of a female companion, and Representative Wilbur Mills' drunken shenanigans at the Tidal Basin with a former stripper) brought the issue of womanizing to the forefront. With the breakdown of sexual taboos in the 1960s, public discussion of such topics became more acceptable. At the same time, with the changing status of women, society has grown less tolerant of the macho...
Fiction that is too tidy and finished, he believes, does not allow the reader an active enough role. "It's much better to leave gaps, which the reader will broach--one hopes...