Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With consummate theatrical brio, Shaffer has attuned the audience to some of its deepest desires-sin, guilt, confession, atonement and a degree of redemption. Dare one say that he has also blinded the audience to his exaltation of deranged violence as religious passion and his derogation of civilizing reason as hollow passivity...
...must do our share of "coping" too. But, alas, unlike the political wife, I can never reserve time for our family life. I can only be tempted by Mary Lindsay's approach to privacy-remove the phone from the hook for1½ hours each night. Do I dare...
...weeks. President Ford has proposed extending them for another 13 weeks, making them last up to a full year as in France, but the compensation usually comes nowhere near equaling full take-home pay. The French plan will be expensive, but even employers do not yet dare grumble. Historically, France has trailed far behind other European nations, notably Sweden, West Germany and Britain, in granting social benefits to workers. For the moment, at least, everyone seems pleased that for once France has taken the lead...
...present century, Oliver Wendell Holmes's legal opinions are preserved as models of lucidity for undergraduates writing essays on admissions applications. T.S. Eliot articulated the equivocations that would plague a later generation when he inquired, "Do I dare top eat a peach?" And John Kennedy, a paragon of the man holding the reigns of power, advocated no starry-eyed idealism but a more tangible ethic that sanctioned the sending of troops to Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs...
...rabbit has a charming face; Its private life is a disgrace. I really dare not name to you The awful things that rabbits do. With this barking doggerel in view, Richard Adams created Water ship Down. That bestselling odyssey of a colony of migrating conies is very much like the adventures of prep school lads dressed up in fur costumes. Only occasionally do the principals seem to act as if they really had long ears and cottontails-and at those junctures the book ceases to be Water ship Down and becomes, instead, a little 1964 volume entitled The Private Life...