Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weldon is more interested in cleverness than character. Her gabby narrator, a woman in the Wexfords' social circle, buckets along, throwing motivation and consistency to the winds in favor of little epigrams and bitchy asides ("She looked like a Christmas cracker with no present inside"). Weldon even produced this flighty nonsense the old-fashioned way: in weekly installments for the British magazine Woman. The Hearts and Lives of Men will make superior feminist beach reading...
...Sarah Lawrence's Krupat starts his American Lit students with parallel readings in Genesis and Iroquois creation stories (which he sees as part of a neglected oral literary tradition). He dropped selections from William Faulkner in favor of Michael Gold's Jews Without Money, a tale of turn-of-the- century Manhattan...
...bill's co-sponsor Frank E. Lockwood '89, council secretary, said, "If we strike that sentence, I think we're insulting the intelligence of 2000 students." Lockwood and Social Committee Co-Chairman Ron S. Lee '89 voted in favor of the neutrality clause on Wednesday...
...What we're demanding is that the Universitynot pressure its employees to vote against theunion," Ladin said, adding that the protest wasnot in favor of either side in the election...
Gorbachev and Najib declared in the eight-point communique they "believe that the last obstacles to concluding the agreements have now been removed thanks to constructive cooperation of all who are involved in the settlement, and favor their immediate signing...