Word: conduite
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supposed to maintain a professional distance from their subject, but the cries of these letter-writers, loud and agonizing, force Miss Lonelyhearts to become immersed in his. Originally a means of advancing his career and increasing his paper's circulation, the column he writes serves finally as a conduit for personal tragedy; awakened to a vain search for an antidote to life's cruelty. Nathaniel West's tormented protagonist inevitably discovers that he too is "a victim of the joke, not its perpetrator...
...tried to prevent King's audience with Pope Paul VI in September 1964. Using New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman as a conduit, the agency sent disparaging word of King's morals to the Pope, but he did not cancel the audience. The FBI also tried to persuade two universities to withdraw honorary degrees that they planned to award to King. It is not known if they complied...
...neither his flaws nor his damaging setback in the Mid dle East have destroyed Kissinger's effectiveness as Secretary of State. He will remain a conduit for the various belligerents in the Middle East, negotiating among them quietly or in the more public forum at Geneva. He hopes to persuade the Russians to moderate the Arab demands, while he preaches restraint to both sides, and he may have some success...
Vigo's Zero de Conduit (1933) and Ophul's The Reckless Moment (1949), with James Mason and Joan Bennett, Sunday, March...
Guinier and the departments will replace the search committee as the conduit for new Afro appointments...