Word: commitment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oregon; in Guadalajara, Mexico, writing 400 pages of a novel; back to Yale, then dropping out a second and last time to concentrate on his writing. The book was now 1,400 pages. "It started out as a boy's suicide note -- not that I was going to commit suicide, but I was very depressed. It was Jack London- type experiences in a Joycean style. Totally insane, with great passages of lyricism here and there. I thought it was the best thing since Rimbaud. And when Simon & Schuster rejected it, I gave up. I threw half the manuscript...
...picture Kirkland paints of the dance world is a dim one. In the New York City Ballet, dancers commit their bodies and hearts solely to their art. The late George Balanchine--the undeniable father of American ballet--insisted that his dancers be reed thin, without hips or breasts to detract from the line of the arms and legs...
Around them, the victory-drunk B.C. Eagles danced with joy, happy to escape with an 87-86 victory at home, happy that the Crimson had neglected to commit an intentional foul in the last 12 seconds, just plain happy...
...recommendations for education and prevention may encounter resistance. In the view of the Roman Catholic Church, for example, a Government campaign to urge use of condoms would be encouraging people to commit mortal sin. The church regards condoms as artificial contraceptive devices whose use, even to avoid lethal disease, is forbidden. In the view of the NAS panel and Surgeon General Koop, however, action must no longer be delayed. AIDS researchers have faced an exquisite dilemma: they initially felt obliged to calm public hysteria stirred by the false idea that AIDS can be spread by casual contact...
...true that Black males commit a disproportionately large number of petty thefts in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods, especially against the often seedy jewelry stores that dot these areas. But what is more important and seldom cited is that the overwhelming majority of Blacks are neither thieves nor robbers nor members of economic groups which depend upon crime...