Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budding superstar by reaching the semifinals; then losing to her seemed less shameful and ominous. Evert went on to Wimbledon, a tournament that had been her nemesis (she lost seven of ten finals) but a place steeped in the traditions she reveres. She loves to quote the phrase from Rudyard Kipling's If that is inscribed above the doors to Centre Court: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same . . ." When Evert lost in the semifinals, the cheers were not for the victor of that match, Steffi Graf, but for the gallant...
These unfortunately are not abstract questions. For just as it was in 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt coined the phrase, the U.S. remains the world's "arsenal of democracy." But these days, rather than sending bundles and battleships to Britain, America is aggressively exporting political technology and campaign expertise. Whether it is bringing exit polls to the Soviet Union or the first negative spots to Argentine TV, Americans are there -- on the ramparts of freedom -- trying to turn the world into one vast Super Tuesday primary...
...explore some unlikely avenues of musical inspiration. "There are eight really strong personalities in the band," MacGowan comments. "Everybody writes." Jem Finer, who plays banjo, sax and hurdy-gurdy and who pulled the Pogues together in the early days, has written, with the aid of a "very old Italian phrase book," an aria. "We've rehearsed it," he reveals, "but it wasn't recorded for the album. Various factions thought it was pushing things a bit far. But opera is one of our secret desires." Unlike British soldiers on a pub crawl, opera fans have been known to throw objects...
...very different character. A character who, rather awkwardly for me, doesn't herself believe in the concept of character. That is to say (a favorite phrase of her own) Robyn Penrose, Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Rummidge, holds that "character" is a bourgeois myth, an illusion created to reinforce the ideology of capitalism...
...cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...