Word: committed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feeling that Lewontin has been through this all before. He's no crusader; he even seems impatient at having to explain his reasons for opposing the grading system, which are to him self-evident. But he continues to commit quiet little acts of impiety against the religion of grades...
BELLA ABZUG, unmarried pregnant girls, Radcliffe women in Harvard classrooms, successful women and, potentially women who don't use feminine hygiene spray deodorants, all have one thing in particular in common. They all commit what Patricia Meyer Spacks identifies as the "ultimate feminine sin" of conspicuousness. They fail to remain in the background as women are supposed to do, with veils concealing their faces and faces concealing their thoughts...
...blame for the frightening "Crime Boom" [April 14] on the electronic devices inn all of our homes? If TV can make us buy a certain brand of deodorant and teach our children to count to 10 before age three, why can it not also be "programming" our youngsters to commit crimes of violence...
GEORGE BALL, 65, Under Secretary of State in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and now an investment banker in New York City, who opposed the commitment of U.S. forces to Southeast Asia: "It always seemed that this would be the denouement. It was clear when the Paris accords were signed that they would be violated by both sides-and they were. Now we must be careful to read the right lessons for the future. First, we must be critical and cautious where and how we commit American power. In South Viet Nam there was no political structure sufficiently sturdy...
Perhaps all these frills were meant to aid our understanding, but they're more distracting than anything else. Actually, Peer Gynt is written on too many levels and with too many intentional ambiguities to be fully grasped. Fundamentally, Peer is a man unwilling to commit himself to any person or principle, who wastes his years seeking fortune and glory, instead of staying at home with Solveig, the woman she loves him. Peer travels not only from Norway to Africa, peasant's hut to mad house, and youth to old age, but into a fantasy world as well. And the trolls...