Word: forswear
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...Kimberly Scearce '91 wrote in their defense of The Harvard Independent's policy not to review Ex shows that the Ex would be well-attended, whether or not its productions were reviewed. We hope that this is true. We also hope that actors and directors do not forswear experimentation--as some suggest-- because their work could possibly be evaluated negatively in print. Is Harvard's commitment to experimental theater really so tenuous that exploring it and exposing it to more of the public would destroy...
...aside, once and for all, the unrealistic vision of a greater Israel," Baker urged. Security interests could be satisfied, he said, by a settlement based on U.N. Resolution 242, which requires secure and recognized borders for Israel. For a change, Baker presented Israel with a U.S. wish ^ list: "Forswear annexation. Stop settlement activity. Allow ((Palestinian)) schools to reopen. Reach out to the Palestinians as neighbors who deserve political rights...
Dukakis' convention speech gave Ailes just the opportunity he was hoping for. Dukakis, moderate in the context of Massachusetts (where reform rather than substantial justice was always his theme), is a liberal by national standards. He is undemonstrative by temperament, in any case; but for him to forswear at least part of his own heritage made him look positively furtive. He seemed to be hiding secrets as well as his smile. That would help Ailes in the crucial assignment he had given himself -- turning the unrelentingly nice George Bush into a vicious campaigner...
...other issues. The most striking example was a decision to end long-standing church teaching against the baptism of polygamists. The Africans said the traditional stand cruelly forced converts to abandon their plural wives. Now converts in polygamous societies will be allowed to keep their wives if they forswear further marriages...
Brian says he has come to no final conclusions about his world-view but is confident that Jesus Christ fits comfortably within it. Though he now has a girlfriend, he continues to forswear drink and drugs...