Word: endeavor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place at the right time for sweeping views, photographers stationed themselves on wharves, docks, boats, helicopters and even blimps around Liberty Island. Obtaining pictures of brilliant fireworks bursting above a completely lighted Statue of Liberty required deft calculation of proper exposures, plus a certain amount of luck. Finally, the endeavor called for printing single photographs across multiple pages, necessitating the convoluted folding of outsize pages into the rest of the magazine...
...almost four months later, the New York Times no longer editorializes about Safran and the "serious trouble which arises when the CIA's involvement in scholarly endeavor is kept quiet." Safran, the Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, is slated to give up the Center's helm at the end of the month. But no one connected with the center believes its problems will end with his directorship...
...externally imposed story. The play closes in a Shavian debate about a larger theme that resonates through all of Gurney's work: America, he says, has lost its sense of absolutes and faces the painful task of living with ambiguity. Striving for perfection in any endeavor signals an inability to cope with an unsettled world. This pastiche, conveying more than a casual cocktail notion, could easily be pretentious. Gurney makes...
...idea of "no free speech for murderers" is flawed on a second count. It conceives of speech as a one-sided activity which is granted or denied an individual on the basis of his actions. But speech is an interactive endeavor, involving both speaker and listener. And by denying a speaker the opportunity to be heard, we do injustice to those who wish to hear his or her point of view...
...lost. Lucas, in a desperate move, enters the the ultimate arena of high school prowess--the football field. Physically he is utterly inadequate for such an endeavor, but he attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his very down-to-earth courage. Will Lucas get the girl? Will his classmates accept him for what he is? Are football players such bad guys after all? This is Hollywood. You can bet at least a compromise with fate will be worked...