Word: leached
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Some sterner souls want to deprive their bodies of wine, good food and other sensuous pleasures altogether. "The sixties generation is no longer engaged in political activity . . . People feel profoundly guilty and are directing that guilt against themselves," said Historian William Leach in a New York magazine article last year. "Running, fasting, enables them to feel whole and pure and clean again." Most people are not going that far, according to Cornell University Psychology Professor Michael Sacks, but he adds, "It has become a sign of status, as a whole, sensuous human being, to have the ability to control your...
...those who go, catharsis is common. As Lin says of the names, chronologically ordered, "Veterans can look at the wall, find a name, and in a sense put themselves back in that time." The war has left some residual pathologies that the memorial cannot leach away. One veteran killed himself on the amphitheatrical green near the wall. A second, ex-Marine Randolph Taylor, tried and failed in January. "I regret what I did," he said. "I feel like I desecrated a holy place...
...page report, which does not represent the views of the entire 130- member caucus, was released by the group's chairman, House Republican Jim Leach of Iowa, along with Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon and Democratic Congressman George Miller of California. Contending that the Administration has used "insufficient, misleading and in some cases false information," the document says that of the $1.7 billion provided to El Salvador since the outbreak of its civil war five years ago, some 30% has consisted of direct military aid and another 44%, the largest portion, is "indirect, war-related economic maintenance" like cash...
Conservative groups hailed the U.S.withdrawal, but some U.N. officials, educators and legislators on Capitol Hill maintained that the U.S. should reform UNESCO from within. Said Republican Congressman Jim Leach of Iowa: "It is difficult to know how U.S. views will be better protected from an empty chair." By this time next year, another chair may be empty. Great Britain last month gave notice that it intends to withdraw from UNESCO...
These are the same pranksters who four years ago made a rowdy success of the lovable Gilbert and Sullivan warhorse The Pirates of Penzance. Then as now, Papp was the producer, Wilford Leach the director, William Elliott the music supervisor and conductor, and Pop Singer Linda Ronstadt was boss soprano in charge of provoking doleful predictions that she could not possibly handle an operatic lead...