Word: inflicting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening third of the review is devoted to a rather self-indulgent and inexplicable diatribe against Texas. I do not know the source of the author's resentment, nor the extent of his knowledge about the state, its people or its culture. But his comments inflict on readers a well-worn stereotype that bears little resemblance to the complex reality of Texas. If Gent's book really is "more a novel of Texas society" than something else, there is, of course, more to Texas than Texas society, or "po' boys at play in the fields (and beds) of the energy...
...current Expos director's "solution"--to shoot down the birds that can sing, and also teachers of proven excellence and compassion--is a solution that will inflict totally unnecessary harm on Harvard/Radcliffe freshmen if he continues to prevail...
...Chapter Two is not a funny play; it is a fundamentally somber play with some funny lines. The man so often heralded as America's greatest comic playwright has now chosen not to make us laugh at human pain this time. With Chapter Two, Simon puts the hurts people inflict on each other center-stage, instead of allowing us an indirect glimpse through snappy one-liners...
...judge could act maliciously, exceed his authority and even commit "grave procedural errors" and still be immune to personal-damage suits. Judges must be free to follow their own convictions, said the court, though Justice Potter Stewart dissented: "A judge is not free, like a loose cannon, to inflict indiscriminate damage...
After the Dodgers had brought in their third pitcher of the night, Charlie Hough, the Yankees came back to inflict more punishment, adding three seventh-inning runs. A Munson single that caromedoff the center field wall accounted for two of those scores...