Word: constant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been explicitly declared unconstitutional. The problem is, however, that in order to vindicate these rights, the staff and friends of the Avatar must "put their heads on the guillotine," to use the City Manager's phrase. With meager financial resources, and in the face of this constant, insistent harrassment, the Avatar may have to close up shop in frustration and disgust. Long, expensive legal battles are a drag--and in this case, they may not even be possible...
...rejects them as no longer relevant. Tom Kahn, who will lead a Freedom Budget Conference workshop this Saturday on Jobs and Freedom, describes this weariness in the following way: "To some liberals and radicals, this list of social priorities has become tedious, commonplace, un-original--as if the constant recitation of the need were synonomous with implementation." What is significant about the Freedom Budget is its refusal to ignore the sweeping changes occuring in the economy and its recognition that only an unprecedented, national commitment to eliminate all the causes of poverty can succeed...
McCarthy speaks slowly and thoughtfully. As he speaks, he glances occasionally at his hands which seem in a constant awkward motion. He projects a hint of uneasiness and a strong sense of modesty...
...diversity and articulate criticism; and because of all human functions, thought is the most difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...
...began the evening with five of the composer's works for male chorus. As a convinced German Romantic, I can hardly object to this choice of music sui generis; but the texture of these pieces is so consistently homophonic, and the rhythmic pattern and figuration of accompaniment so adamantly constant that even I found the novelty wearing off after a while. What makes Schubert worth listening to are the exquisite tunes of harmony with which he glides so effortlessly from one surprising key to another. But it is really unfair to ask an audience to listen to all the conventional...