Word: commits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what fiction could be to be satisfied with what his fiction way. The construction of the realistic novel embarrassed him--the naming of characters, the filling in of backgrounds, the painstaking drawing up of climax and resolution. Why call his hero Lodd Andrews? And why have him resolve to commit suicide and why then change his mind? With an infinity of possibilities, choice implies reasons, and reasons and good reasons. But Barth had no good reasons. What so bothered him was that one story telling decision looked quite as good as another, so how could one go about deciding...
When Palmby denied bringing any inside information to Continental, no one on the committee pressed him on why Continental sold wheat at precisely the same terms as those announced three days later by the White House. No one questioned why Continental would commit itself to selling 150 million bu. to Russia without some assurance that the Agriculture Department would protect its price by raising the export subsidy-as it later did. Because of the amount of money involved, Continental apparently risked heavy losses without such assurance...
This philosophy of nihilism leaves Dawes with a choice: he can either commit suicide, thus rejecting a meaningless life, or he can as Todd Andrews did in John Barth's The Floating Opera, conclude that he might as well live on because suicide is also meaningless...
...object." Nor was it only Kennedy's star quality that made the difference. McGovern was cheered just as warmly and usually longer. Moreover, he began to get the feel of audience-tested lines. The most popular, repeated in litany: "Never again will we commit the precious young blood of this land to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship 10,000 miles away...
...describes that two rules which delineate the maneuvering room for American war policy--(1) Vietnam must not be lost before the next election and (2) do not pass certain escalatory thresholds. For Americans, the two thresholds with the greatest domestic political consequences were decisions calling up the reserves or committing ground troops to an Asian land war. The first of these was never crossed in a major way, but Johnson did commit ground troops. Buried in a footnote on page 72 Ellsberg admits that quite possibly the introduction of ground troops was motivate by the belief that...