Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portraying the trials of her heroine in this simple-minded, self-indulgent manner, Gray does a disservice to those who must confront them in real life. Stephanie, in her interminable conversations with a hip Jesuit friend, rhapsodizes about her yearning for freedom. Yet every time he suggests that she take a real step towards it, she lapses into a whining refrain about how tough it is for women. By this time, of course, one has completely lost interest in any of the things Stephanie is searching for; it becomes increasingly hard to believe that what she wants can be worth...
Celine, his biographer asserts, was an inveterate pessimist who conceived of truth as "a willingness to confront the worst without flinching." Although the novelist tirelessly seeks beauty in the bodies of women and the abstract movement of dance, a vision of catastrophe always prevails. For Celine, the ultimate truth was death, and the title of his first novel aptly describes the desolate trend of his written as a whole; it is A Journey to the End of the Night...
...sense desperate, and didn't give any serious thought to just packing up and leaving in the middle of the term. But he was also sure that he wasn't ready to face any serious decisions about his life at Harvard, decisions which he felt would confront him the following year. Relying for support on friends, particularly on a sympathetic roommate, on an encouraging tutor, and on his analyst, Collins finished out the year. By the summer after, the only thing definite about his plans for the year off was the place where the time would be spent...
...devoted more time to it. It was in a way a Fourth of July inspiration. Buoyed by the Bicentennial celebration, newly confident about his chances of winning a presidential term on his own, Ford on July 5 called for work to start on a fighting speech that would boldly confront the issues of his "accidental" presidency...
...providence permitting, one of the most memorable foot races of modern times would have been the 1,500-meter final on Saturday, July 31, the last full day of the Olympics. Tanzania's Filbert Bayi, the world record holder in the 1,500 (3:32.2), was expected to confront New Zealand's John Walker, the fastest man ever to run the slightly longer-by 120 yds.-mile (3:49.4). Walker's best time in the 1,500 is only a hairbreadth two-tenths of a second off Bayi's record, set in the Commonwealth Games...