Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other social needs. For that reason, probably the last thing the U.S. needs right now is a tax cut, however popular the idea. A cut would stimulate consumer spending, probably deny the Nixon Administration a budget surplus as a means of cooling off the economy, and throw the whole burden of combatting inflation onto a continued tight-money policy-to the distress of both home buyers and businessmen. In the longer run, a tax cut would absorb much of any "peace dividend" from lower spending on Viet Nam, thus dissipating funds that are needed to meet the pressing needs...
Pusey's respect for his office-and his sense of the importance of the dean-have led him to the same conclusion. He reportedly has told friends that he would not want to burden his successor with a dean held over from his own administration...
Jagger's body is the real excitement of the Stones today, the sole vehicle for their celebration, so the burden of arousing the crowd, of embracing and proving all our dreams of the Stones-violent, sensual, perverse, etc.-rests on him: we must remake the concert with his image. And it's hard to maintain the tempo of abuse that we demand of him, even with all our fantasies riding on his every move. After all, someone in the MC5 took a shit on stage in Seattle; Morrison whipped his cock out in Florida. What else can a poor...
With his androgynous visage, his arms akimbo, Jagger beckons to the repressed sexual urges in all of us, volunteers to take on the burden of our own sadistic and rebellious reveries; in return, we pay him lots of money and promise not to remember what he does. As long as he gives us a few concrete gestures, the rest doesn't matter; we'll extrapolate from there. His sulking, his mincing, the fluttering eves, the limp wrist are but touch-stones to the structure of our own imaginations. I don't know what happened in New York or the Boston...
...said the burden for developing new programs will fall to students and Faculty through House discussions. He has asked each House to come up with written recommendations which May will then collate and present to the newly-created Committee on Undergraduate Education...