Word: lende
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would stand as a statement of disrespect for the law, in a free society, maintenance of any semblance of social order depends on just such respect between a government and citizens who voluntarily submit to its structures. Harvard does not stand above the law, and should not lend its institutional dignity and status as an important opinion-making entity to an attempt to subvert federal legislation...
Naylor's straightforward tone defies the usual gimmickry to which the subjects she treats so readily lend themselves: out-of-wed-lock pregnancy, parental shame and a runaway's difficulties, single women just a step ahead of poverty, abandoned wife-mothers, young Blacks struggling through militancy in search of dignity, the stereotypical welfare case, homosexuality in mainstream society. But out of this parade of social issues come the same personal interactions with which everyone is too familiar. The women's particular situations are merely a fog obscuring people who, Naylor convinces the reader, are at bottom typical. Fleshed out, these...
...present appearance doesn't lend itself to good service, nor to the Harvard Square atmosphere," he added...
Since then, the zero option has become even more of a millstone around the Administration's neck. Because zero is absolute, it does not lend itself to compromise, especially in an Administration where arms control is, at best, highly suspect The prevailing view, represented most forcefully in closed-door meetings by Perle, has remained that no agreement is better than a bad agreement and any agreement that leaves the Soviets with any SS-20s is a bad agreement...
This production initiates an admirable transatlantic lend-lease plan between Joseph Papp's Public Theater and Britain's Royal Court Theater. As might be expected, the entire cast is best-of-breed...