Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Alice's characters are not obvious symbols, they are so obviously symbolic that the conviction of reality drains out of them. Albee puts the burden of feeling on the language. Still, there is more echolalia than eloquence in the speeches. The cast is a marvel; the play could scarcely survive without these players and the taut direction of Alan Schneider. John Gielgud is the paragon of paragons. His thin but resonant voice invariably astounds one by making an orchestra out of a clarinet, and his speech is kingly...
...will be able to pump billions into the pocketbooks of U.S. consumers-probably by further tax cuts-without risking inflation. The Administration has a new flexibility in economic planning because the success of the '64 tax cut in spurring the economy without inflation has taken much of the burden off federal spending and monetary policy as the two main weapons the President must rely upon in coping with the business cycle. Says Donald Cook, President of American Electric Power and a close friend of Johnson's: "After the tax bill, there came a new economic thinking...
...European world will arouse the indignation of any Asiatic, African or Latin American aware of the value of his non-European heritage. Freyre's "cultural model to combat the new racist patterns," as the CRIMSON calls it, can only be called an extension of the traditional "white man's burden...
...early prophet of the century's sexual revolution, in prose and by example, D. H. Lawrence attracted swarms of intense female admirers, several of whom rushed into print right after his death with memoirs whose burden was that only the author understood "Lorenzo's" real self, and only his cloddish wife Frieda stood in the way of some blazing fusion that would make sexual, if not literary, history...
This brings me, moreover, to the heart of the matter. My references to the blunders of the administration in the present dispute were in the nature of concessive clauses. The burden of my argument was that, whatever mistakes may have been made, the steps taken by the students to redress their grievances have been wrong, unjustified, and far more harmful. Specifically, I argued (1) that the issues of the dispute are by no means so obvious and one-sided as the so-called Free Speech Movement pretends; (2) that the obligation of the University of California to make its campus...