Word: fates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, Administration officials kept delivering bleak predictions. Appearing before a Senate subcommittee, Secretary of State George Shultz explicitly tied the fate of El Salvador to the rest of the isthmus, including Mexico, "with which we have a long border." The testimony of the usually cautious Shultz surprised reporters and Congressmen alike and served as perhaps the best evidence of the Administration's tougher stance. Nestor D. Sanchez, Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary, told House members that the Salvadoran army might run out of ammunition in 30 days. William Schneider Jr., Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, confirmed the alarming...
...running a three-card monte scam, a prostitute who will "show you my scar for $5"), there is a derisive stereotype of the working-class drudges who get in Wren's way. Wren is so determinedly self-destructive that it becomes hard to care about her fate. Nonetheless, Berman does her best to bring this tough, tart Irma la Douce to life. She and Brad Rinn, as a naive Montana boy who offers Wren vagrant hope of regeneration, snipe amusingly at each other, as if they were the Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon of the Lower East Depths...
...greatest drama, Greek and Shakespearean, there is a final reconciliatory acceptance of man's fate. Williams could not achieve that exalting serenity of vision. "Hell is yourself," he said more than once, and the only redemption he knew of was "when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." In the finest moments of his finest plays, Williams achieves the lesser, but genuine, catharsis of self-transcendence. In breaking out of the imprisoning cycle of self-concern, the playwright and his characters evoke a line from Ecclesiastes: "To him that is joined to all the living...
...nominee to head the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency but not blocking his nomination entirely. During three confirmation hearings. Kenneth L. Adelman cast doubt upon his own integrity and demonstrated his incompetence by repeatedly wavering when asked fundamental questions about arms control. By sending debate on Adelman's fate to the Senate floor, the Committee is only prolonging a problem it should have resolved quickly and decisively. Adelman should not be the chief U.S. arms control official...
...sciences and social studies are theoretical formulation or they are people going off and handing people computer cards," Coles explains adding. "As you go through the literature of so called child development or moral development, you find that all children share with migrant children a similar sort of academic fate which is a consequence of the deliberate refusal of certain 'experts' to acknowledge that a boy of ten say and a girl of nine, are quite able to take stock of the world normally get to the heart of its values and assumptions...