Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visiting Edinburgh last month, she had a chance encounter with Alexander Nevzorov the ultra-nationalist Soviet TV journalist. The Yeltsin staffer says that Nevzorov, spewed his contempt for the bumblers who conducted their inept coup in an alcoholic haze. "Next time," Starovoitova says he told her, "we won't fail. We'll arrest the opposition before announcing that we have taken over. You will be one of those we will arrest...
...audience is treated to humorous performances by both the Prince of Aragon (Jeremy Nye) and the Prince of Morocco (Danny Shivakumar), as they fail to win Portia's hand. Shivakumar displays a wonderfully cheesy attitude--he's self-confident to the point of parody. Nye is effective in the role of the Prince and plays the part with more than a touch of contempt for Portia, essentially telling her that she would be lucky to have him. Nye is actually more memorable in his other role as Launcelot Gobbo, Shylock's Falstaffian servant...
...extremely insulted that Abrams suggests that we disassociate ourselves from people who have a message for us, even if a small portion of that message may be offensive to him. After all, do Americans fail to honor Thomas Jefferson and George Washington because they were slave owners? And are Americans "out-raged" or "embarrassed and shocked" by the statements of such celebrated individuals as David Hume, who wrote, "I'm apt to suspect the negroes...to be naturally inferior to whites," or Immanuel Kant, who wrote, "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling...
Although the Free Speech Guidelines adopted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 13 and May 15, 1990, state that the "free interchange of idea is vital" for the University community, they fail to guarantee Harvard students and faculty the right to expression...
...conference for one day, give an opening speech, then depart on other business -- political business in Houston, where he will kick off his re-election campaign. But with the flying trip to Madrid, he can be seen as a catalyst for the process if negotiations succeed or, if they fail, as a man who gave peace his best shot. "This is a win-win situation," says a senior official...