Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peopled with doll-like Edwardian women and dandified men. These ghosts, thin and sharp as memory in the preservative desert air, flit through empty, curlicued facades or congregate amid their elaborate furniture, radiating a wistful chic; as image maker, Curtis is more elegant than challenging. His objects do not confront one another in shock, like Lautréamont's famous sewing machine and umbrella on a dissecting table-they nod, as it were, with mild and civil assent, a little surprised to find each other surviving in Arizona. Survival, in fact, is the keynote of such...
...also removes that person's right to confront his accuser if the Defense Secretary rules that further examination of the evidence against him might expose the intelligence apparatus by which the evidence has been obtained...
...confront the NLF with a difficult choice: either to attempt to isolate its areas from the economic integration of South Vietnam-which, the report suggests, would cause population draining" and an increasing gap in standard of living between NLF and government areas-or to allow the integration, which would undermine its authority...
...established and is maintained as a convenience to students seeking opportunities for employment or graduate study, and the validity or suitability of its procedures. Unless you are completely unlike the Harvard men who have gone before you, I doubt that any of you would ever want that office to confront you with an arbitrarily restricted list...
...military sense." he reasons, "but in a broader sense it seems to me we lost it, for our Western civilization is less respected and secure than it was before. In order to defeat Germany and Japan, we supported the still greater menaces of Russia and China, which now confront us in a nuclear-weapon era. Much of our Western culture was destroyed." Then, in a sentence that falls somewhere between Nietzsche and incoherence, he declares: "We lost the genetic heredity formed through aeons in many million lives...