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...happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency makes people harsher, more inward, more aggrandizing. Bell yearns for a restoration of civitas: "The spontaneous willingness to obey the law, to respect the rights of others, to forgo the temptations of private enrichment at the expense of the public weal-in short, to honor the 'city' of which one is a member...
...successful soap, Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins, was aired in Chicago, Procter & Gamble's commercials were skillfully buried in the plot. Writers prided themselves on a seamless blend of message and drama. Irna Phillips, the seminal soap writer who dominated the genre for 40 years, even thought she should forgo her credit to enhance the shows' realism. It was Phillips who anchored the soap to the family and peopled it with professionals. The youngest of an Iowa grocer's ten children, she used her grasp of the powerful mythologies that fill family life to enliven even the most banal script...
...changes would allow students now in the department to forgo the present honors-only program of courses, which includes junior and senior tutorials with a thesis or project to be completed senior year...
...good member of the Harvard community without discarding one's blackness, Jewishness, Catholicness, femaleness, etc. The role of a given institution--a university, union, corporation--in facilitating this dialectically intricate pluralism does not require, however, total surrender of its native subcultural attributes, its particularistic tendency. It need only forgo the nativist phobia: the fear that pluralism (coexistence of values, forms, styles) necessarily destroys particularism...
...Paolo Cabras branded the regime "a continuing curse against all free men." Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme described the Madrid government as so many "satanic murderers"; Reiulf Steen, chairman of Norway's ruling Labor Party, defined the Franco regime as "a black barbarity." Steen implored his countrymen to forgo their winter vacations at Spam's popular resorts: "After what has happened, those who go to Spain to get a suntan ought to be ashamed of themselves...