Word: gradualness
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Ketanji Brown is a commanding stage presence as Wiletta. Brown's gradual and fearful discovery of her own strength, of her inner need to rebel, is extremely convincing. This discovery is pivotal in the second act, and it is to Brown's credit that she can carry the action so effectively...
...this plan, which has not yet been approved, will not go into effect this year, state education officials say, and will likely be implemented on a gradual basis...
There is nothing wrong with a gradual reduction of American forces in response to the Soviet eclipse. There may even be some merit to skipping one generation of weapons and investing instead in research and development of the next generation (as suggested by former Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle). Both of these approaches, however, rest on the premise that the U.S. must maintain a large, technologically advanced, worldwide military force. The logic of the peace dividend is the opposite: now that the cold war is won, it is time to demobilize...
Kemp has some company among conservatives in promoting imaginative ideas. Illinois Congressman John Porter has proposed the gradual conversion of Social Security to a private system that would give each worker a personal retirement fund to be individually invested. The new arrangement presumably would provide greater benefits relative to cost. Around the country, some infant local think tanks are also innovating. In Denver the Independence Institute is circulating petitions for an amendment to the Colorado constitution aimed at shrinking "giantism" in the public school system. The measure would convert state education subsidies into individual vouchers so that families could shop...
...elegiac title poem Westward is about another journey, from London's Euston Station by rail toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Contemplating Margaret Thatcher's England, she reflects on the "frayed-/ out gradual of the retreat from empire." The Prairie is a reverie, expressed with extreme simplicity, on the peregrinations of her forebears from the Midwest to California and back again. "To be landless, half a nomad, nowhere wholly/ at home, is to discover, now, an epic theme/ in going back," she concludes. Clampitt is wisest when she is plainest. At her best, she writes poetry that, in Marianne Moore...