Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, commits suicide. Why? The question lingers, humbling but provocative. In the novel's larger frame the reader is forced to feel and appreciate the equivocal human concerns and rival pulls between East and West in intimate human terms that propaganda cliches used by both sides too easily dismiss...
...computer-controlled traffic light system, a no-parking law on main streets during rush hours, and one way streets. But the Traffic Director says that without an adequate budget ($41,000 is far from enough) he will have difficulty producing results. He fears that the City Council will dismiss him without ever giving him sufficient funds...
...hard for a new term, the theater management finally relented, promised to integrate if the students would call off the demonstrations. Bail set for the students was eliminated, and they were released from the jail. Only one thing marred the victory: unless police and the theater management agree to dismiss them, the students still face charges of trespass and disorderly conduct...
...figure who probably knows more about the peregrinations of Europe's masterpieces than any man alive. But it is not just his huge file of photographs or his unparalleled collection of auction catalogues, or even his incredible memory, that accounts for his ability to spot a fake or dismiss a work of mediocrity within the blink of an eyelid. His father, who fled his native Alsace when the Prussians swarmed through it in 1870 and started the secondhand store in Paris from which the great art empire grew, put his son through a highly personal and rigorous training. When...
...from underestimating the importance of the self-perpetuating psychological barriers created by segregation. Nor do I dismiss the contribution of liberals to social change in our country. But treating the individual as an individual is our end and cannot be a program. What really results if we treat the individual as an individual here and now, and ignore the existence of groups as groups?--if we treat persons strictly according to their merits, as J.G. suggests? We establish a heirarchy of society from "scientist" to "drunkard" (as if no scientists were also alcoholics!) and the IQ test becomes...