Word: confronted
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Neither of the two teams made it into the World Series, so that pluvious contest will surely never attain the significance I wished for it in my dolor. But my disinterested effort to view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold...
Coming down from the heady abstractions of the summit, President Ford last week rolled up his sleeves to confront the gritty economic and political realities of devastating inflation, lengthening recession and a looming international crisis over oil prices. With congressional elections less than a month away and pressure building for action, the Administration has been working feverishly to meet its self-imposed deadline to produce an effective and politically acceptable program by this week. The President planned to address Congress on nationwide television on Tuesday afternoon to announce his program and appeal for bipartisan support...
Even if the sole criterion for judging Saturday night's action were its impact on the free exchange of ideas, the failure to raise issues in a coherent way would still be the real criticism to be leveled at the demonstration. By forcing people to confront something important, the demonstration could have helped to break through the fabric of seeming acquiescence and apathy that enshrouds not just race-related questions here, but also most of the other issues regular discussion of which would signal the existence of truly free debate. For all its professed devotion to liberal ideals of full...
...investigate the present situation is to confront the highly contradictory "logic" which guides the struggle against the democratic rights of Black people on this campus. The Bok administration has almost made a complete joke of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research. As it stands now, we are all amazed but not amused. The appointment of the advisory board raises several points...
...subscribed to Mailer's theory of discussion-cum-boxing, and for a long time I've tried to find courses that promise academic pugilism. I looked for that idealized seminar room infused by the hovering spirit of the Marquis of Queensbury. In this age of laxness, I reasoned, men confront law school rather than German troops at the Marne--we must endeavor to substitute verbal missiles for military ones, and to replace infantry swords with forensic ones...