Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ONLY the cast, who has the inhuman burden of providing everything Dear World's creators have omitted, cannot be blamed for the show's failure. Neither can Peter Glenville, the director, who has contributed some nice group blocking--an achievement that doesn't mean much when the stage is full of paper dolls...
...White House-is whether he is capable of coming close to that ideal. He faces the immensely difficult problem of reconciling an alienated left and an uneasy right, of bringing together Negroes and young people, Wallace followers and middle-class Americans who feel an ever more crushing burden of taxes. He has yet to persuade a great number of citizens that he is wholly to be trusted. His narrow victory may complicate the task. "The problem will not be easy," he acknowledged this week. "We are confronted with the generation gap; we are confronted also with a racial...
...about winning that losing is almost unAmerican. In this sense, the U.S. is only the most extreme example of the Western trait that Oswald Spengler described as Faustian?the refusal to believe in a static order or a fixed fate. The very freedom of Western culture puts a heavy burden on losers. Western man's destiny is largely up to him?and so are his failures. The fabulous opportunities open to a new people on a new continent became the basis of a secular religion, a faith in competition and success. That faith shaped the American's attitude not only...
Hardy explains the difficulties the varsity has been having on the road this year by saying that "it is easy to lack confidence at the beginning of a soccer game, because the sport places more of a burden on the individual than, say, football does...
...while we do not know that capital punishment protects anyone, we do know that it costs lives--those of the people we execute. And there are other costs as well. Capital punishment provides yet another brutalizing influence in a society already ladened with its own burden of violence and war. Because it is qualitatively so different from any other form of punishment now employed, its presence undermines the concept of degree in the administration of justice, and thus the rationality of the law itself is diminished. Worst of all, there is the ever present possibility that an innocent man will...