Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, Yale took the field knowing it had to confront a Harvard team sporting a 7-2 won-lost mark including a dazzling upset of Army, an impressive defense with a knack for the big play, and an offense which, while characterized by unevenness, seemed latently lethal...
...Kennedy-to-Thurmond shift at Judiciary best reflects the altered congressional mood, as well as reveals the legislative hurdles that confront a strong new chairman. Thurmond has a wide array of proposals he would like to see enacted, including a ban on abortion except in cases of danger to a woman's life, incest or rape. He opposes busing for racial integration and wants to allow prayer in public schools. He hopes to get a constitutional amendment passed that will force the Federal Government to balance the budget...
Still, the school's laid-back image has lately begun to work against it. Students today are reluctant to confront graduate schools and employers with unconventional college grade transcripts. As a result, enrollment at Santa Cruz began to slip after reaching 6,134 in 1976. Last year U.C. President David Saxon warned that the campus would have to trim its faculty unless enrollment rose significantly by 1983. This year the student body is up to 6,472 but that figure includes 460 students who wanted to go to the University of California at Berkeley and came to U.C.S.C. only...
Dysart guides us through the circuitous caverns of Alan's consciousness and unconsciousness, where bizarre images casting terrible shadows ricochet off the walls of his mind, slowly settling to form the horror he cannot confront. The struggle between Dysart and Alan (and their private bouts with their respective neuroses and psychoses) is at the core of Equus, giving the drama its chess-match tension as two fierce wills clash and two magnificent intellects trick and torment the vulnerable souls possessing them. Sadism and compassion feed on each other as Dysart and Alan peer, with frightening perception, into one another...
...speed and facility with which the hostages succeed in re-entering normal life will depend in large part on the tolerance and understanding they receive from their families and from the American public. The unthinking could all too easily confront them with two opposed dangers: either a hostile reaction to possible pro-Iranian utterances or excessive public adulation. Warns Psychology Professor Murray S. Miron of Syracuse University: "The more we lionize the returning hostages, the more inconsistent their attitude could be about themselves." Hubbard agrees that two much notoriety could aggravate their psychological problems. "These folks need privacy and gentleness...