Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love Paris in the Springtime. [crescendo con brio...
...strain on the black man and woman, it shows in various ways. Paul Laurence Dunbar, the black dialect poet, explained, "We Wear the Mask." That is one way of surviving; as a con man, a common figure in black fiction. Another way is to "disappear," to pass for white or otherwise become anonymous. The Invisible Man disappeared altogether, forging a life of an existential fact: since he was invisible to the white world anyway, why not go whole hog? The third way-separation-brings America back from fiction to reality. In a sense, separation often seems the most reasonable choice...
...would seem to me, therefore, that the "con job" that is being pulled is not by the Southwestern Company on unsuspecting Harvard undergraduates, but, to this contrary, by the press and university administration on the Company and on students looking for a legitimate, challenging summer job. By restricting recruiting and whitewashing the Company whenever the opportunity presents itself, the administration and media have made it extremely difficult for undergraduates to find out about the program at all, much less get an objective picture of it. Under such conditions, how can a student who might genuinely be interested in participating...
Cawley said at first the work "seemed like the world's oldest con job," and that he still has "too many doubts to commit myself...
...also means bringing con certed pressure on pro-Western members of OPEC, to recycle more of their petrodollars and petro-yen through the multilateral institu tions. Venezuela, a founding member of OPEC, has been assist ing the poorer nations of the Car ibbean basin, and Saudi Arabia spends about 3% of its G.N.P. on aid programs for such relatively poor Islamic states as Pakistan, Syria and Jordan. But Saudi Ara bia's vast wealth represents a global problem and not just a re gional one, since it has accumulat ed that wealth partly at the ex pense...