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...only political problem. His electoral fortunes peaked in the Feb. 1974 election, when he lured enough discontented voters from both Labor and the Tories to poll an impressive 20% of the vote and won, with just 14 seats in the Commons, what looked like an ideal position on the pivot of power. But Thorpe decided against bringing the Liberals into government for the first time in 44 years and turned down a Tory bid to join them in a coalition...
...case histories of her psychoanalytic patients--cases-in-point in which women had to grapple with such things as competing professionally with a spouse, having children out of wedlock, adopting children into a lesbian household, or relying on masochistic fantasies for sexual arousal. Each example provides a pivot for her own condemnation of the tyranny of stereotypical yet pervasive forms of morality and feminine role-playing...
...some fundamental way, Rose was Tennessee's muse, the "White Goddess," in Robert Graves' term, who inspired him to write. She, of course, is the crippled Laura of The Glass Menagerie. But his mother, whom he calls "Miss Edwina," has been the love-hate pivot of his life. Quite apart from supplying the model for the memorable Amanda Wingfield in Menagerie, this formidable lady, now in her 90th year, stamped certain irreversible traits on Tennessee's attitudes, character and dramatic style. Valiant in coping with her stingy shoe-salesman husband Cornelius' early desertion of the family...
...most urgent and controversial questions pivot on the Greek Cypriot refugees who fled the Atilla operation last summer. There are at least 180,000 of them--almost a third of the total Cypriot population--and although they have all been squeezed into tents, the strain of caring for so many dispossessed is severe...
...Harvard was in the driver's seat and patiently worked the ball around. It came to Banks in the pivot, but the big center was double-teamed, which meant that someone else was open. That someone was Silver, who received the alert pass from Banks and was immediately fouled...