Word: instructions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
About the best the Administration can hope for from Carter's talks with Sadat and Begin is that the three leaders will agree to instruct their negotiators -Sol Linowitz of the U.S., Interior Minister Yosef Burg of Israel and Premier Mustafa Khalil of Egypt-to convene in Washington for a final round of intensive negotiating. The May 26 date could readily be waived if substantial progress is being made. But if these tripartite talks turn out to be unsuccessful, White House officials are unenthusiastic about calling another Camp David summit meeting and thus putting the President on the spot...
Henry Kissinger believes an ambassador's role has been diminished in certain very precise ways. Says he: "On day-to-day negotiations, professional ambassadors are less necessary than they were in the last century, when distances were greater and instructions could not be issued in each instance. Today there is a trend to instruct them in minute detail in even insignificant tactical decisions." On the other hand, he also pays diplomats the haughty compliment of arguing that it is up to them to take up some of the cerebral slack left by politicians. "Before World War I," he says, "world...
...Council quickly responded by naming a committee to handle the transfer of the hostages to another location, probably under military jurisdiction. Banisadr met with Khomeini Thursday morning. The Ayatullah did not explicitly instruct the militants to obey Banisadr, but after their meeting he reaffirmed his faith in the new President and in the Revolutionary Council...
Fourteen years and four or five version later, I've learned that Charlie Brown is no work of art, but it still manages to instruct and delight about as well as any show of its kind. One of the children who sat cross-legged in front of the first row in the South House dining hall confirmed its didactic capabilities last Saturday night. He asked me who Socrates was, obviously not understanding an allusion Linus made when he tells Lucy to know herself. There is no doubt, however, that this youngster could relate to the abandon with which Linus sucked...