Word: disown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other respects. Time and again he was attacked for some position taken by his magazines. Often enough it was a position on which he had not been consulted and with which he might well disagree. Under such circumstances, it would not have been difficult for a proprietor to disown a story. But he always accepted full responsibility for everything-as he expected his subordinates to do all down the chain of command...
...will not take on a part until she has read deeply in the period and "comprehended it with my mind." She does not disown Stanislavsky, but refuses to study him because "I don't want to pluck out the heart of the mystery." While rehearsing The Lion in Winter, she found "Eleanor of Aquitaine's troubles becoming more important to me than my own. It was so painful, so masochistic, I asked why am I torturing myself? Should I play only buoyant, happy parts...
...School Committee has two alternatives: to comply or to begin a court fight against the law. To comply, the Committee will have to disown part of the imbalance plan it submitted last fall. That plan, resting on the premise that "some schools located in the center of the non-white population of Boston will remain largely racially imbalanced," was rightly rejected by the state Board last week. What was best about the plan--its programs for "compensatory education" and research--clearly had little to do with meeting the Racial Imbalance Law's requirements...
...wrought. Candace did it. From the day long ago, when the little Georgia belle found out females have an earthy attraction for males, Candace has coated that little body with so many veneers of honey and passion that if the real Candace stood up, Mrs. Mossier would probably disown...
...should happen Dec. 19 that the French people decide to put General de Gaulle aside, to disown that which is part of their history and-excuse me for believing this-for the present a national necessity . . . this would be an immense misfortune for the country...