Word: commitant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blacks. "I'm on the front line all the time. It depresses me." The demands of middle-class life have produced some new strains. Says Thomas Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit suicide -they survive. Now we commit suicide, and we go to psychiatrists." The rate of suicide among whites is almost twice that of blacks, but the gap is narrowing...
Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up before I can catch them...
...second possible advantage of Kiely's proposal is that it might induce senior faculty members who are reluctant to prepare a full-stage Sanders Theatre performance or to commit a full fifth of their time to freshmen to become involved in the general education of first-year students. Besides that, team teaching would provide a forum for professors and graduate students in diverse fields to engage and cooperate with one another as well as with their students...
...hand" was not only aimed at Hanoi and Saigon, but made partly with an eye to the election only twelve days away. Some of Kissinger's aides have told Szulc that they doubted that Kissinger really believed an agreement was at hand, but that he wanted "to commit Nixon to a quick peace. He seemed worried that after the elections Nixon might reopen the whole diplomatic situation; he feared that given Nixon's natural inclinations, the President might revert to toughness after being re-elected...
WEDDING IN BLOOD. Two married lovers (Stephane Audran, Michel Piccoli) are driven by their shared need and the transports of passion to commit murder. This woebegone plot, written and directed by the sometimes masterly Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher), needs all the voltage it can stand. From Chabrol and his stars, it gets only a few anemic charges. The paramours are intrepidly bourgeois, their longing for each other so squalidly selfish and narcissistic that every time they paw each other they seem to be polishing a mirror. They lavish the sort of affection and attention on each other that...