Word: fore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meticulously apportioned lavishness. Adjectives tend to buckle under its splendors. One chubby royal playboy, Jagat Singh II of Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this vanished culture...
...small pleasure. But they give themselves to different men in the doomed hope that they will find their identity at the point where all the lines of male force intersect. Even motherhood fails to bring Moravian women alive. Mirrors appear again and again, mocking the ladies who stand be fore them for being less real than their reflections. In Moravia's world, the furniture has more personality than the people who sit upon...
...that theme: "We are asking for support for the idea of such a program not on economic grounds, and not even on humanitarian grounds primarily, but on the grounds of attempting to build peace in Indochina and therefore to contribute to peace in the world." In an appearance b fore the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Secretary of State William Rogers pursued the same cautious, pragmatic line suggesting a kind of moral neutrality regarding the war's devastations, looking forward rather than stirring again any possible questions of international guilt and innocence. Said Rogers: "There may be some longing among...
...regular season games. This year, just before preseason work outs were scheduled to begin, the team owners struck back by refusing to open the training camps. No ballplaying, said the moneymen - not until the current round of collective bargaining is completed. If a solution is not reached be fore March 1, the official starting day of spring training, it would be the first time that baseball's annual spring rit ual has been delayed since the major-leaguers began going south 87 years...
Thus, even for those economists with a strong committment to a more equal and humane world order, the basic assumptions of the conventional economics proved to be a powerful drawback to understanding the new problems brought to the fore by the social movements of the 1960s. Thus, the assumption that human nature, as expressed in individual preferences or consciousness, can be treated as independent of the structure of economic activity, is an unfortunate starting point for an economic analysis of worker alienation, sexism or racism. A discipline whose main analytical tool is the concept of equilibrium and whose conceptual apparatus...