Word: predict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also gained credit for being an able administrator and tactician, not to mention his striking speed-reading ability. Six months ago, Arab leaders tended to dismiss him as a weak and probably transitional figure; today they are not so sure. In Israel, most political observers now predict a long premiership for him-a remarkable accomplishment, considering the many problems he faces and the vulnerability of his original coalition...
Taylor says that "the problem for us is not intolerance, but repressive tolerance." The radical faculty at Harvard is in a tiny minority, and it is difficult to predict that such a small group could have a very substantial impact against the control of education by more orthodox and conservative faculty and a more conservative society in general. The problem for Harvard faculty radicals has been until now a refusal by the rest of the faculty to accept the radical viewpoint. For Taylor, Skocpol and any radical teachers in the future, the problem may be that the University will accept...
...grows up and understands the mistakes of the older group. There already are many signs that this is being understood inside Israel-only small indications, but significant. We are only asking that we all live together. I not only hope the Israelis one day will accept this, but I predict that they will...
...over 1973. Some sociologists believe that as mobility decreases and the idea of the home as a fortress takes hold, neighborhoods will grow more conservative and more hostile to outsiders-be they blacks bused in to schools or addicts brought into stable communities for treatment. Psychologists predict life in the fortress will produce "intensification"-that is, good marriages will get better, flawed ones will fail...
...heart of the play is Gar's relationship to his father (his mother died, as one would predict, in childbirth). No warmth passes between the two, for which Gar is bitterly resentful and partly responsible, but their memories and dreams of a past, happier time surface again and again throughout the play and finally bring them to the edge of an understanding in a sleepless, early morning scene...