Word: lessens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing that has happened to Hanley is something that he could not have foreseen-the opening of Murray Schisgal's therapeutically hilarious Luv. Sorry-I-was-ever-born plays now sound like hollow parodies rather than dour profundities; since Luv raised its satirical whoop, playgoers are bound to lessen their self-commiserating indulgence of misery. More than ever a playwright who intends to woo his audience with some tale of woe will have to do it out of an intensely felt, intensively rendered personal experience...
...declaration on antiSemitism, which the Arabs see as an implied Ro man recognition of Israel. Moreover, Athenagoras and his deputies had to consider the views of the World Council of Churches -all but three of the Orthodox bodies belong -which hopes that serious negotiations with Rome will not lessen Orthodox interest in ecumenical talks with Protestants...
...that judgment after Cuba," he said. "We did not press our victory or try to humiliate the Soviet Union. Instead we seized the chance to move toward meaningful and lasting settlements which might lessen the danger...
...goes into modernization rather than straight-out additions to capacity. Papermakers have boosted capital investment by 30% above last year's level, and the chemical industry, despite excess capacity, has massive expansion underway to provide the new production lines required by new products. All this building helps to lessen the pressures on capacity and, because of the cost-cutting automation that goes with it these days, is good insurance against a profit squeeze that some economists fear may develop by the end of 1965. Moreover, the new plants mean new jobs, payrolls and spending that will help the economy...
Martin Luther King and Ella Baker, MFDP Washington staff member, clash violently over the issue. The delegation must accept the compromise, says King, to lessen "the long suffering and deep-seated frustration of the Negro people." "We must reject it," says Miss Baker, "to condemn the massive political pressure exerted by the administration...