Word: disbelief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That would require, as a visa, a disbelief willingly and perhaps perpetually suspended, a wariness of outsiders (Jackson has not given a print interview in more than a year), a capacity for gentleness, and a tolerance for fantasy that might tax the average adult imagination. Jackson lives at home in Encino, Calif., with his mother, father and two youngest sisters. He supervised the recent redesigning of the sprawling Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room...
...theories and all the attempts to assign blame differ. But all critics share the common disbelief that while union bosses, expatriate Mafiosi, and Soviet dissidents are subjects of elaborately planned and executed plots, the young, vibrant Chief Executive of the most powerful nation in the world could die at the hand of a loan nut.Diagram of the Dallas site of John F. Kennedy's assassination...
...lunch and a three-hour siesta, heard the results at the home of a wealthy supporter in a Buenos Aires suburb. "Let's wait, let's wait," he cautioned excited aides. At his party headquarters downtown, Italo Luder sat forlornly in his office, shaking his head in disbelief. Luder's supporters, expecting a night of partying, instead drifted quietly out of the building. Finally, at 5:45 a.m., the perplexed Luder emerged from his office, not to concede but to go home for sleep. Said he, wearily: "The counting is not complete...
...what faculty are capable of teaching well, but of where students have been before they came, what their various subcultures on campus are and might develop into, and where diverse cohorts among them are headed. For any program to work well, students and faculty must be prepared to suspend disbelief in it, and sustain a certain level of intensity which will occassionally be joyful, more commonly effortful, even painful. Let us call whatever we conclude about this part of the curriculum General Education...
...West Covina, Raina Padilla would have rolled her eyes in disbelief (Daddy!) if Ernie, her father, had suggested a corny quincea?...