Word: certain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often claimed that Prospero is omnipotent, but he is not. He can do certain things when he wears his magician's robe, but other things depend on the willingness of his superhuman servant Ariel, who hopes to store up enough brownie points to earn freedom from his master. The very name Ariel suggests the "airy spirit" Shakespeare described him to be, though the name is actually a Hebrew one found in the Old Testament, one of whose meanings apparently was 'hearth...
That prospect sounds unheroic and, in Burns' terms, transactional. A certain amount of glamour and drama will still at tend future leaders. But in the absence of war or economic col lapse, the task of leaders will require much more than style...
They admitted, however, that bedside visits by officials and relatives had been sharply curtailed. Moreover, it was no longer certain that he would be well enough to be released after two weeks...
Volkswagen's moves are certain to cause other foreign automakers to recon sider their plans for producing in the U.S. Volvo, which two years ago canceled plans to start production at the plant it owns in Chesapeake, Va., might be tempted to produce its new lightweight "Car of the Eighties" there. The Japanese, who face much the same currency problem as the Germans, are bound to consider American production seriously as a way to stop Volkswagen from regaining for good its old dominance over them...
...school. ("Blarney is one thing," author observes, "self-deception something else.") Connected with big-moneyed foundations, great universities ie Government, these neoconservatives exert disproportionate influence by preaching a doctrine that, the author argues, "threatens to attenuate and diminish the promise of American democracy." What are these seditious views? A certain discouraged attitude about the future and human nature in general. Misgivings about the decline of the family and the habit of hard work. A sense that some sort of religious values must be re-established in America. A notion that individuals should be responsible for their own success or failure...