Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this point, it appears Rep.Morris Udall (D-Az.) has emerged as the front-runner among liberal candidates, but Udall has little to offer in the way of alternative approaches to social and economic problems beyond an outworn reworking of Kennedy liberalism, emphasizing the environment. In fact, until recently, his campaign rhetoric fed into the right wing attack on social programs by urging the American people to lower their expectations in the face of scarce resources. Nor do other liberal candidates like Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) and R. Sargent Shriver have more substantive solutions for the social and economic crisis...
...parliamentary democracy and, if in power, to permit opposition, a free press and even a mixed economy. Striving to shed his party's doctrinaire image, French Communist Chief Georges Marchais went so far as to state on TV recently that the dictatorship of the proletariat is an outworn notion-a shocking bit of revisionism that brought a sharp, if predictable rebuke from Pravda. Marchais's new lip service to democratic principles has cheered French Socialists, who are allied with the Communists behind a joint platform of social goals known as the Programme Commun. As the taint of Moscow...
...Outworn Welcome. The P.R.G.'s decision to get rid of foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...
...level (a couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to see that their characters' obsession with keeping outworn frontier traditions alive is really childish role playing. This is most evident in the movie's treatment of women. All are either sexually restless (notably Elizabeth Ashley as the rancher's wife) because their men are so wrapped up in fantasies, or (like Charlene Dallas) exploited...
...Outworn stratagems underpinned the Faculty's affirmation of the present CRR: the Faculty best knows how to protect teaching and research institutions [Samuel Beer]; the rights of the Faculty to teach and to do research are jeopardized by students [James Q. Wilson]; the Faculty has been double-crossed by students before and must protect itself [Beer...