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...contemplation of this act, and the decision to go through with it, that provides Talmage with the framework for his play. Perhaps despairing of handling the glittering literary cast that thronged through his characters' lives, the playwright turns everyone from Virginia Woolf to Carrington's sailor-lover into throwaway lines. As a theatrical contrivance this works amusingly. But it is one thing to simplify, for dramatic convenience, the structure of historical lives and quite another to oversimplify their emotional tenor. In Talmage's hands, the brilliant Strachey becomes a fussy queen; the dangerously unstable Carrington, a ditsy...
...authors' heavy reliance on data to prove their case. For the first time, they use tools such as production functions and econometrics to demonstrate unions' effects on the economy. "The book is a quantitative approach to a subject previously vague and qualitative," says Medoff, adding, "it has a theoretical framework broader than the neo-classical approach...
...Harvard Corporation adopted many of the ASCR's specific recommendations and enunciated four basic policies which have, since 1978, guided the decisions of the CCSR and formed the basic framework for the ACSR's recommendations to the CCSR...
...Spartacus League in their attempt to represent a political alternative. They do not support Republicans or Democrats or the Progressive Labor Party or any other practitioner of "bourgeois politics." The difference between the Sparts and other political organizations is that while others work for reform within the existing political framework, the Sparts wish to overthrow that existing system...
...generally Masons say they have learned more clearly how to think about certain development issues. "The knowledge itself is not as important as how you view the question at hand," Ban Ki Moon says. "We have been taught an analytical framework which the K-School is famous for and have benefitted from this method...