Word: impels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kiss of the Spider Woman, the novel of two mismatched prison inmates that became an Oscar-winning film, Manuel Puig portrayed how enforced intimacy can impel people to enter each other's psyches. Mystery of the Rose Bouquet, now at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, explores the same phenomenon. This time the setting is a hospital in Argentina, and the characters who drift into each other's dreamscapes are women -- an old contrary patient, rich and autocratic (Anne Bancroft), and a middle-aged nurse whose outward cheer belies a lifetime of thwarted opportunity and scant satisfaction (Jane Alexander...
...Jews but also against the Slavs, some of whom had originally welcomed the Wehrmacht for liberating them from Stalin. Once some kind of peace was re-established, in other words, could the Nazis have moderated their rule enough to make it tolerable, or did Hitler's psychotic drives constantly impel him toward new battles, toward the Holocaust, toward his death in the ruins of his nation...
Howe said she thought the new policy would impel students to drive to Harvard and M.I.T. for parties, increasing risks of students driving drunk...
Constitutional qualms will probably impel the Administration, when it spells out a new policy for federal employees later this month, to make tests mandatory only for those in "sensitive" or "critical" jobs where drug use could damage public safety -- air-traffic controller, for instance. All other federal workers will most probably be asked to submit to "voluntary" tests. Critics argue that such a system would involve enough pressure so that the tests would not be truly voluntary or that they would be worthless because only those who are clean would sign...
...liberty of the United States and its allies can always be improved and one way to improve it is for the American academic elite to offer help when the country is needs it. Scholars are under no obligation to offer assistance to the CIA but should their convictions impel them to do so, their decisions should be respected no less than those of the left-leaning scholars of the 1940s who went to Washington to fight Hitlerism. What was right for Marcuse and Moore in the 1940s is no less so for Safran and Huntington in the 1980s...