Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was, however, a measure of good news for Carter. Despite the more than 2-to-l preference for Kennedy as the party's next nominee, 42% still believe Carter will be renominated, perhaps because many still doubt Kennedy will seek the prize. Moreover, Carter's stepped-up criticism of the Congress was greeted by more than half of those polled as positive. He gets good marks for his Middle East policies, for his moral fervor, his personal appearance, his personality and such abilities as speaking and bringing people together. Unlike other Presidents who have fallen...
...southern Lebanon. This time he was not speaking just for himself. Said Young, who resigned under fire last month but will retain his U.N. post until later this year: "We condemn the policy of artillery shelling and attacks on Lebanese towns, villages and refugee camps ... Let there be no doubt or ambiguity about this. We cannot and do not agree with Israel's military policies in Lebanon. They are wrong and unacceptable to my Government...
...that the $5 million sum amounted to nearly 60% of Mutual's 1974 net income, the court said that the award was bloated by the "passion and prejudice" of the jury. A new trial must now be held to set a fairer award, but the decision left no doubt that courts could continue to exact punitive damages from insurance companies...
...responsibility in the country." This perhaps is Cimino's real obsession: to analyze the psyche of a society in conflict. He hopes soon to look at the 18th century, in a film about the Sioux culture. That movie, Cimino insists, will be told in subtitled Indian dialogue. No doubt the sounds of switchblades and garbage-can covers in Hollywood will follow close behind...
...background. She is a smart and very tough cookie. As is Lonoff; as is Zuckerman; as is Roth himself. The Ghost Writer is a bruising book. Within its artfully tangled plot, Roth tells off his critics and debunks romantic notions of the writing life. Henry James' "passion of doubt" and "madness of art" become a medieval incubus and fanatic patience; Lonoff, more the ascetic Old World Jew than his Yankee trappings might indicate, spends all his time pushing sentences around and worrying about them. His comment on writing 27 drafts of a single story: "To get it wrong...