Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is, simply, that Springsteen has ignored his limitations on this album. He shines when he explores the problems that confront an outsider trying to wrest women from sheltered lives with the lures of speed, passion and freedom. Springsteen is in fact one of the most attractive and believable outsider person as in rock. But when he tries to assume the stance of someone caught inside, in the work-a-day world, it's hard either to accept or be interested in it. Springsteen is a wonderful painter of the social landscape, but as a social critic he is standing...
Aroused California voters confront a beguiling proposition...
...morning, when the bear reappeared, the explorer coolly shot him at a range of 55 yards. Said Uemura's wife Kimiko in Tokyo when she heard about his encounter: "He is a continual surprise to me. At home he's afraid of cockroaches. Out there, he will confront a bear...
Joan B. Breen '80, an IRC member, emphasized that the rumors "were completely wrong. They were spread about competent, hard-working women." There is a general atmosphere of "subtle sexism" that the organization must confront, Breen added...
...Kissinger role in both planning and executing foreign policy.* This has occurred in part because while Carter is indeed more intensely interested in world affairs than his predecessor, Gerald Ford, he is certainly no more so than John Kennedy or Richard Nixon. And as Carter has rushed to confront many problems both at home and abroad, he has sometimes stumbled by not availing himself of State Department expertise. The lesson has been a painful one for both Carter and Vance, but the President seems to have learned that while he must make the final decisions, he cannot...