Word: hope
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tactical weapons, those used in wars, cannot hope to equal the power of strategic weapons, those used in avoiding war and winning moral victories, Gavin said. He said the decay of cities in the United States needs immediate attention...
...recent letter to the editor (December 6, 1977) written by Thomas C. Seoh '78 discussed certain objections to the funding mechanism espoused by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (Mass PIRG). I hope to provide some acceptable answers to these objections...
...popular sex symbol out of a refreshingly non-macho male. Soap, after a slow start, has begun to change its intially idiotic female leads (Cathryn Damon and Katherine Helmond) into believable middle-aged heroins. Though there is much to lament about ABC's blockbusters, they are not beyond hope-and neither, it is safe to assume, is country that settles down to watch them each Tuesday night...
Divorce is an amiable mode of parting compared with the way in which the disaffected husbands in Passing Game, now at Manhattan's American Place Theater, hope to end their marriages. Richard (William Atherton) and Henry (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) want their wives to be murdered. To that end, they have rented cottages at a deserted lakefront resort. The reason there are few vacationers around is that some demented killer has declared open season on them. Wishfully, the two men want the phantom murderer to choose their wives for his next rifle fodder. Barring that, the pair make...
...with his wife dead there will be "nobody to remind me of my potential." Playwright Tesich partially redeems this shaky premise by reminding us that failure is not a private affair in the U.S. It is a public humiliation. By shutting their wives' eyes, the two men hope to shut the world's eyes...