Word: commit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made early in February. But by delaying the announcement, the Administration has caused undue hardship to many students. Indeed, one student has been forced to change more than one hundred reservations on a summer trip. Surely students have a right to know the requirements in a course before they commit themselves to take the course...
Thus with perfect clarity, Sartre manipulates the myth to portray Orestes' struggle against the gods, his growing commitment, and his redemption of the people. However, unless I sorely misunderstand the play, the surface clarity of structure disguises a number of deep philosophic muddles. Electra assures Orestes that by committing his murders, he is merely fulfilling the curse on the House of Atreus; Orestes, on the other hand, assures Zeus that by killing the tyrant he is fulfilling himself. Certainly he never for an instant feels the remorse which Electra's interpretation of his act would make necessary--but Electra does...
...arbitrary criteria. These men want (1) tax reform (2) land reform (3) contracts from specific firms or agencies, before they will feel easy about appropriating funds. On the whole, they have remained singularly unmoved by Administration statements that meaningful political legislation often depends on economic stability, that one cannot commit funds absolutely before one has them, and that it is silly to connect every political event in Latin America with the success of the Alliance. The trouble is that expropriation of the I.T. & T. in a Brazilian province, or the fact that Cuba has instituted a stiff rationing program...
Rose, suffering from schizophrenia, became convinced that people were trying to poison her, that men were following her. Psychiatrists gave the Williamses two alternatives: commit Rose to an asylum or risk a prefrontal lobotomy, a much-questioned operation. Williams' parents signed the paper for the operation, which left Rose calmed, often lucid, but incapable of recovery. Guilt at his inability to help his sister engulfed Williams, and she still haunts his memory and imagination. Rose is now in a mental hospital in Westchester County, N.Y., and Williams pays upwards of $1,000 a month for her care. When...
...Bator writes ". . . it strikes me as irresponsible to that the president commit never, under any circumstance, sume atmospheric tests." That what the students proposed. discussion of what had been strated and what had "thus advanced" the students public announcement by the States "that it will not resume The President had indicated would be deciding soon whether or not, and the students asked decision against testing, a on which responsible opinion vided...