Word: cravenness
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...seen the light of day. Because I do not teach the fiction course, I possess no special knowledge of these matters. But I have reason to believe that there may well be a very interesting story here: a story in which professional jealousy, personal vendetta, career ambition and craven capitulation to bureaucratic politics have combined to deny freshmen the one writing course they really want to take...
...speaks with horror of her days as a Phi Mu: "The asininity of 'secret ceremonies'; the moronic emphasis upon 'activities' totally unrelated to-in fact antithetical to-intellectual exploration." There was also "the aping of the worst American traits-boosterism, Godfearing-ism, smug ignorance, a craven worship of conformity." Grist for the Gates mill? Never. "To even care about such adolescent nonsense one would have to have the sensitivity of a John O'Hara, who seems to have taken it all seriously." But not while he was in college; O'Hara never got that...
...issue must come to a vote before the legislative session closes on June 30. A number of representatives continue to waver, however, and the amendment's supporters are wary of calling for a vote until they are sure they have maximum support. Worries League of Women Voters Lobbyist Gloria Craven: "Taking a stand on an issue like this in an election year is tough." Regardless of what happens, Naomi Ross of the National Organization for Women maintains that ERA'S foes "will be very sorry they made us work this hard. Women are in politics in Illinois as they...
...between the acts of this royal variety show are several excursions off to the home of the wicked Stepmother (Margaret Lockwood-the heroine, during rather better times, of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes). There, Cinderella (Gemma Craven) gets snooted by her Stepsisters and gazes sorrowfully into the flames of the scullery fire, waiting for her Fairy Godmother to come along...
...European-born U.S. Secretary and the Continent's leaders were mostly forgotten. The much-vaunted Year of Europe that Kissinger had advocated in 1973, without prior consultation, had outraged the allies. In the oil crisis and embargo of the same year, Kissinger privately described the Europeans as "craven" for failing to stand up to the oil producers. He exacerbated troubled U.S. relations with Greece and Turkey during the Cyprus invasion of 1974. Yet, as the Europeans well-and gratefully-realized, he had boldly assumed the role of U.S. President for foreign policy and symbolized America's steady resolve...