Word: hammerism
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...What Carol is doing is giving us the tools to learn how girls develop intellectually--on their own terms," Trudy J. Hammer, associate principal of the school, said in a prepared statement recently...
...many respects, the book represents a maturation of Roth's artistic vision. The self-deprecating Jewish humor provides a comic yet despairing perspective and enables Roth to hammer home his points more powerfully. Yet the extremity of this critical introspective and the vindictive nature of such criticism can make both Zuckerman and Roth seem like the very Jewish martyrs they revel in ridiculing. After all, Zuckerman's backaches are only just so interesting...
...containing compromises on all the essential problems. It would be presented to both governments for their consideration. He had learned from experience that it would be impossible to get formal approval in advance from Washington for all the necessary tradeoffs. But he figured that he might be able to hammer out an agreement with Kvitsinsky on his own. If successful? the resulting accord would be advantageous to the U.S. and would help solve one of the Administration's political problems: the growing perception that
...doubt the U.S. overreacted and squashed the mosquito with the sledge hammer, but LaFeber ignores the historical context of the incident. Surely 2000 tons of Soviet arms alone did not represent a threat to U.S. security, but coming in the wake of the Communist takeover in China, the Korean War and continued tensions in Eastern Europe, the U.S. was understandably alarmed at the appearance of Russian arms on its doorstep...
Neither, in the long run, is the presence of U.S. Marines in Lebanon. Although the international forces stationed in Beirut can serve as a valuable stabilizing force while the Lebanese hammer out a settlement, their stay should not be open-ended. As the recent car bomb attack at the Marine compound illustrates, the Marines may only serve as a catalyst for still more violence. The United States should withdraw the Marines as soon as they are confident such a withdrawal would not prompt fresh violence...