Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...starting with the small scene set up in the title and relaxing the poetic structure. Wright successfully moves to and captures the complicated concept of one person's relation to a crowd of strangers. Other prose poems similarly sneak as if unintentionally from the simple to the complex. Free of the poetic structure that would hold the ideas and images to a central thread. Wright can hop from one to the next on the strength of association...
...almost as if the nation's leading distiller had suddenly come out in favor of Prohibition. Having unveiled the biggest deficit in U.S. history, President Reagan said at his press conference last week that he approved the concept of a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget. He is expected to endorse the proposal formally later this month. The irony was not lost on the Democrats or, indeed, on the White House. Admitted a presidential aide: "When your deficit is $100 billion a year, some people are going to wonder how serious you are about a balanced budget...
...landscape of sundry handicapped limbs can't be appropriate for activities devoted to fun, no matter how the injuries grow Intramurals provide non-varsity athletes the chance to play and they go a long way toward making the concept appealing. Many games and little practice Condense the best and throw out the worst Undoubtedly injuries are one of the more non emulative characteristics of the role model varsity program...
...MISUSE OF THE CONCEPT of apology has become a hallmark of the Reagan Administration. Often, the President's pronouncements take the form of a staunch refusal to apologize, perhaps born of a desire to cultivate a tough-guy image. Usually, Reagan emboldens his notions with an appeal to morality; it is right to spend injudiciously on defense while slashing entitlements; it is right to cut taxes; it is right to repel the pervasive Soviet/Marxist threat. Any apology reveals itself to Reagan as a sign of weakness...
...world could not prepare the President, or any council of wise men, to cope adequately with the pressures of those few moments. Nor could they be sure that the commanders down the line, to say nothing of their machines, would behave in a way that fits the anodyne, abstract concept of a limited strike, aimed exclusively at Soviet military targets...