Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lesser roles are in general better handled than in Coe's Othello last summer. Eight of the players assume two roles apiece (the practice of doubling was of course standard in Shakespeare's day) Edward Atienza is particularly laudable as a cleanly spoken Worcester, though he overacts the Welsh rebel Glendower (who has parody built into him and does not need any more superimposed). And Karen Stott gives pleasure through Lady Mortimer's prescribed song (with a real on-stage harp accompaniment by Sophie Gilmartin), though her Doll Tearsheet, as I indicated, belongs in the sequent play, which I wish...
...became president-elect to his four-year botching of the energy issue to his handling of the 1980 campaign, Carter emerges as out-of-touch with longtime Democratic officials, willing to preside over the disintegration of his party's grand coalition and too proud to ask lesser-ranking Democrats for advice. On major issues, he was similarly misguided. White describes Carter's practice of poring over 1000-plus page military budget documents. He concludes that by mid-term, Carter, amazingly, had become the White House's chief researcher and goofball aide Hamilton Jordon its chief policymaker...
...underlying problem is that the party is badly, if quietly, split. In one camp are the veteran liberals who have been largely responsible for shaping Democratic policy since the New Deal. These traditionalists, exemplified by Kennedy and, to a lesser extent, by former Vice President Walter Mondale, remain committed to the idea that the Federal Government should continue to provide a panoply of social services for the needy. As Kennedy put it in Philadelphia, "We will be, as we have been before and at our best, an advocate for the average man and woman, a voice for the voiceless...
...seems to me that the second nuclear war is likely to take place between lesser nuclear powers outside Europe, but that such a war is perhaps not as likely as we might imagine. We haven't talked about proliferation, but one of the great fears that people have about the spread of nuclear weapons into states that don't possess them at the moment is that the conditions that have made for the nuclear peace between the United States and the Soviet Union will not [occur] elsewhere. Perhaps the most intriguing question of all is what will be the world...
While Achievement tests obviously correlate more closely with high school curricula, admissions officers are far from agreeing exactly what the connection is. Most say a strong high school will bring up a student's scores, possibly shortchanging those enrolled in lesser schools...