Word: obey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What distinguishes the mentality of the Moscow intelligentsia more than anything else is its greed for awards, prizes, titles: "honored personage . . . laureate . . ." In shameful pursuit of all this, people stand to attention, break off all unapproved friendships, obey all wishes of their superiors and condemn any of their colleagues if the party orders them to do so. I think even the sorriest pre-revolutionary intellectual would refuse to shake hands with the most illustrious one in Moscow today...
...instance, détente and normalization of our relationship with the Soviet Union, the American efforts to maintain peace in the Middle East, common energy political positions. It is inevitable that we cooperate in good spirit and faith with the U.S. This will never mean that we could obey orders. The difficulty for the Americans is that, on the one hand, they have to act as the most important leaders of opinion and on the other, they have to avoid appearing as leaders. There are many people in the world who do not like to be led, at least...
...explain the fact that around the world there are millions of motorcycles that reside peacefully with their human masters, willing to obey any of their masters' whims? More important, why are these law-abiding motorcycles never forced to do freakish things? Motorcycles have no culture. The characters of motorcyclists vary widely, but the actions of a few bring the press down...
...reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something recognizably his own. He leaves no doubts that his intentions...
...depressed and might even die unless he was soon relieved of some of his legal worries. Nixon's doctors did confirm a new blood clot last week (see box page 17), but part of Nixon's pain and discomfort is clearly the self-inflicted result of his reluctance to obey his doctor's advice for treating his thrombophlebitis. Ford's interjection of Nixon's health into his speech is the best evidence in support of the Nixon health theory...