Word: clearcutness
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MUCH OF THE PLAY'S success relies on the ability of director Chad Hummel to bring out the moral ambiguities of seemingly clearcut moral issues. Admittedly, Miss Julie is a manipulative coquette who delights in ordering Jean to kiss her feet and be her dance partner. Yet as Dishy's performance illustrates, Julie is also a pitiable character, a girl with a sordid past and an emotionally empty present. Similarly, Norris' refreshingly human portrayal of Jean transcends the stereotype of the noble savage and simple Marxist social commentary. While Jean admittedly experiences humiliation as a servant of aristocrats...
...more clearcut example of trendiness is the Sid Vicious reincarnation stationed between the stacks in Lamont. The Punk and Ivy League lifestyles are not only incongruous, they are also mutually exclusive: No genuinely sordid and cynical Punker worth his razor blades would spend four years on the grounds of an alligator stronghold studying towards a Bachelor...
...weapons they replaced (the SS-4 and SS-5) because they do not have the capability of reaching the United States--SS-20 remains a theater weapon usably, only in Europe. The Pershings and Cruise missiles though are clearly superior to their prerectly From the Soviet viewpoint, this is clearcut escalation...
...explanation that, ironically could be viewed as Marxist. Goldman contends that the authoritarian nature of the economic system dictates the political system's constraints. Even Soviet leaders are provided little space in which to maneuver or more accurately incentive to effect change. The "classless society" makes a clearcut distinction between the masses and the elite granting the latter inumerable privileges. As Goldman writes, "For those who do realize the true state of life, the temptation to protest is generally tempered by the realization that muckraking may lead to the withdrawal of such privileges. The Stalinist political model yields...
...college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit is a powerful goad, and the clearcut wording of the new laws allow little room for dodging...