Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will no doubt bring its enormous idealism, its tremendous exuberance and its experience in building institutions that make for social coherence while allowing plenty of room for individual advance. In trying to shape a new order in which all peoples and all nations are truly equal, we need the gift of seeing ourselves as others see us and also the gift of seeing others as they see themselves...
...ever succumbing to them herself. Through the agency of this energetic woman, a remarkable but typically Shavian reversal takes place: the seemingly strong, happily married Morell comes to realize his childish dependency on his wife; at the same time Marchbanks, rejected by Candida as the less needy, internalizes her gift to Morell as his own vision, in the process exchanging childhood for artistic maturity. In Candida, the "best" man fails to win; instead, the meek--or at least the weak--inherits the woman, if not the resolutely non-socialist earth, while the poet continues to dream his dreams...
...Transkei, an area of just over 16,550 miles, is no great gift to the people who will live in it. Like all the homelands to which black South Africans are assigned, it contains no industry, no mineral deposits and little fertile land. Unlike the other bantustans, the Transkei does have a coastline, but it has no port through which to import or export goods...
Carter's admission that lust as well as trust can cross his mind is, according to Art Buchwald, "a gift from the gods." The humorist unwrapped the gift and wrote of his own mate eying him keenly at a party for signs of concupiscence. Chicago Tribune Columnist Michael Kilian examines Carter's statements on tax reform and concludes: "I'd much rather have Jimmy look with lust upon my wife than upon my wallet." Cartoonist Pat Oliphant recently drew Carter hiding among peanut sacks in the attic while Rosalynn went after him with a shotgun. "Jimmy Carter...
...Garagiola, baseball's answer to Myron Cohen, described the Reds most aptly when he said, "They tie a string to every gift. You go after it and they pull it away from you." The boys from Cincinnati were no different last night, playing Santa Claus in double-knits for the first five innings...