Word: disown
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...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...
This had to be the first anti-Vietnam rally ever at which invocation was read (there were large pockets of people who refused to stand up for it). Most of the speakers went out of their way to disown the more radical elements of the protest movement...