Word: cherishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oppressed females. To a woman, they were educated and sensitive beyond their stations in life, forced to exist in the shadows of horrendous husbands. Yet feminists have never embraced Drabble as a spokesperson because her heroines too often stumble from orthodoxy. They may leave their husbands-but they cherish their children, refusing to feel demeaned while changing nappies. They eagerly have affairs-but trust that the new men will fill an emptiness in their lives. Coasting through her mid-30s, Frances Wingate has achieved everything that her predecessors lacked...
...debate. The reason is that the computer's indexes measure statistical value rather than emotional appeal. Despite Buffalo's rank of No. 15, for example, most Americans are not likely to be extravagantly moved by the city's charms. But they will probably continue to cherish New Orleans for its fabled zest and beauty- subjective qualities the researchers could not take into account in placing the old town near the bottom of the list...
...moderate and conciliatory. It was devoid of any crowing about Soviet policy, except for one gratuitous reference to Lenin as an early proponent of peaceful coexistence. Of the conference results, he declared, "There are neither victors nor vanquished, winners nor losers ... It is a gain for all who cherish peace and security on our planet...
...country's most talented dancers, musicians, writers and scholars are retreating in despair from neo-Stalinism and from cultural stagnation. Many are emigrating and defecting to the opportunities-and the pains-of exile. The remaining dissenters are depressed. Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the hero of those who cherish civil rights, insists that there have been no reforms since Khrushchev's modest relaxations more than 15 years ago. Sakharov patiently conducts his lost cause from a bleak Moscow apartment that is a mecca for Soviets in trouble with the KGB-and for Westerners whose respectful visits help the scientist stay...
...Douanier Rousseau but because his whole way of imagining the world derives from a hope about human nature that is peculiarly and particularly American. If that view -along with the religious view that supported it-is now nearly as dead as the moon, it remains an aspiration that Americans cherish. Both to celebrate and remind, in this Bicentennial era, the Andrew Crispo gallery in New York is opening this week a major exhibition of Hicks' paintings, a collection of 37, about a third of his surviving works...