Word: posing
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Bryant argues that we have long since passed the golden age of conundrums, when there were riddling magazines and contests that intrigued kings and poets. Today such puzzles are usually confined to children's books and Sunday supplements, a situation that leads the disgruntled anthologist to pose a question of his own: "Is riddling something only relevant to cultures at the so-called 'mythological' stage of thought or has all the fun gone out of the Western world?" Answer: No. For proof, see Riddles Ancient and Modern, an engaging festival of some 700 posers, ranging from Homer...
...itself to abolish the runoff primary system, which in nine Southern states and Oklahoma requires a second primary if no candidate wins a majority in the first. Campaigning in Texas last week, he spoke of creating a "blue-ribbon commission" to study possible reforms in all electoral practices that pose barriers to black candidates and added, "I'm far more concerned about the principle of equity and parity than the strategy to achieve it." On Friday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt said he planned to form a "party unity task force" to settle disputes among the three candidates...
Jessie, a New York Jew who fought through the civil rights wars with her husband, wants to sell. Not sell out, just abandon a pose of high-minded poverty that is not accomplishing anything, and move to a decent house in an integrated neighborhood. Carll won't budge. Then his sister and brother-in-law, affluent segregationists from Birmingham, are killed in a car accident. Their two children, mannerly young racists, move in with Carll and Jessie. More space is needed, and Carll acquiesces sulkily when Jessie finds a larger house in a middle-class neighborhood...
...coal truck. Often, too, he is so ready to find himself guilty of every kind of moral inattention and to punish himself unsparingly that his soul searching comes to resemble breast beating. Yet Fugard's relentless self-scrutiny guards him from the traps of self-indulgence. "Do I pose?" he asks himself. "I don't think so-but I'm very given to tears...
From the start, this band had a sound recklessness. was both brash and melodic. The Pretenders burned through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde...