Word: frameworks
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LOGICALLY ENOUGH, the ideological framework that hinders economic recovery also perverts international political relations. The inability of the United States to see the world through anything other than an East-West prism is not a new factor, but has become particularly dangerous given the upheavals in Central America. The United States is presently engaged to some extent in El Salvador and Nicaragua. In both countries, the Administration is pursuing ideologically rigid policies that seem destined to fail...
...constructive uses. A man of reason, he abhorred violence: a realist, he understood that violence sundered the bonds of humanity and defeated its own objectives. His mission in the 60s was to replace violence by persuasion and to incorporate the disordered wrath of the New Left into the constitutional framework of American political action...
...undergraduate-level teaching, its hostility to faculty with progressive or feminist views, and its lack of understanding of the importance of Women's Studies and women professors at Harvard/Radcliffe. Past statements by University officials that a women's studies program can be developed here within the existing departmental framework appears especially fallacious in the face of yet another loss of a woman teaching about, among other things, women...
...into kitsch. But for the most part, suggests A. Kenneth Snowman, jeweler by appointment to the royal family and guest curator for the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition, they should be judged by the affable spirit in which [they] were originally created-an uncomplicated desire to give pleasure, albeit within the framework of an efficiently organized business house." Another scholar, Sir Roy Strong of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with it a passionate conviction of the importance of craftsmanship...
...favorite of Nasser's back in the 1960s, has reappeared and would seem to signal an impending change in policy. Thus in a recent article in Foreign Affairs, an Egyptian diplomat called for "a positive and constructive Soviet contribution to the peace efforts, especially in regard to the framework of Camp David" and added that his country "would like nothing more than to turn a new page and establish friendly relations with the Soviet Union..." based on the vague principle of "non-alignment." Such terms are usually a cover for simple anti-Americanism...