Word: curtailer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cast of Hair, now playing in Boston at the Wilbur Theatre, will have to wear some minimal clothing and curtail its overt sexual activity, if it wishes to continue...
Unless the U.S. is willing to take the chance of widening the war, however, it might be wiser to settle for smaller gains. One possibility would be for the U.S. to discourage Cambodia from military action against the Communists, but to encourage the new regime to curtail their supplies. If Washington were to seek any more dramatic profit from the current turmoil, it might risk throwing away the hope of a long-term political settlement in exchange for a short-term military advantage...
Untrustworthy Words. Despite his own eloquence and the book's interlocking questions, Wiesel distrusts words. "They destroy what they aim to describe," Katriel says. "By enveloping the truth they end up taking its place." Questioning silences, Wiesel suggests in A Beggar, can be more trustworthy. They do not curtail explorations with limiting answers. Wiesel has observed elsewhere that "art must be a result of cumulative silences. The silences must become so full that they finally break out. Then you start writing...
...MUTINOUS Senate is trying to recast the conduct of U. S. foreign policy. Vietnam has been the catalyst for defining a new relationship between the executive and legislative branches. Growing bolder each year, the Senate has taken tentative steps to curtail effectively the disposal of American troops overseas-first by the passage of the "national commitments" resolution in June and now by Mathias' attempt to repeal the so-called Cold War Resolution...
Dunlop said that Harvard may be forced to curtail the number of Corporation appointments...