Word: onus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible to live under the onus of playing only masterpieces," says Luca, who has a small one in the Bolcom. "If I am able to enjoy the work and can convince someone else that it is enjoyable, then it's worth playing...
...which we, as grown-up Harvard-Radcliffe students are individually responsible for employing the available resources. The Murray Research Center, the Bunting Institute, and above all, the Schlesinger Library do exactly what Mr. Kurzman suggests they fail to do: attract faculty and scholars. It is wrong to rest the onus of blame on the victim, for it is Harvard's unwillingness to acknowledge the legitimacy of Women's studies which is holding back the full potential of this discipline. Radcliffe handed over control of the undergraduate curriculum for women to the Harvard administration and should not be condemned...
...seems to be treating this incident seriously and has already launched an investigation. That's good, but in the wake of this glaring lapse the onus is on UHS to demonstrate that it is not the uncaring, bureaucratic beast its student-critics claim. A timely and meaningful explanation of the events of April 13 is imperative. We deserve...
Both teams today will use a basic formation consisting of a wingback, two set backs, and a split end. But Princeton, despite the onus of the supposedly ground-hugging Wing-T formation, will almost certainly pass more than Harvard...
Some movies reverse the moral onus that Americans long felt about the war. They are fantasies of revenge, like Missing in Action, in which Chuck Norris returns to Indochina to rescue old buddies still held there by evil Vietnamese who look like the wily, despicable Japanese in World War II films. These changes reflect a very literal and significant transaction. They suggest that in the American imagination, the Viet Nam veteran, erstwhile psychotic, cripple and loser, has been given back his manhood...