Word: prefered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed moderation - flavored with firmness - was the keynote of Sadat's special address to Egypt's People's Assembly last weekend. "Some may expect an emotional reaction from me [to the breakdown of the Kissinger efforts] but I prefer action to reaction," declared the Egyptian leader. Thus, despite fears that Cairo would not renew the mandate for the U.N.'s peace-keeping forces in the Sinai, which expires on April 24, Sadat said he would agree to a three-month extension because "I do not want to place a sudden crisis before the international community...
...recently published interview with English Art Critic David Sylvester. "I like very perfect things, for instance. I like perfection on a very grand scale. In a way I would like to live in a very grand place. But as in painting you make such a mess, I prefer to live in the mess with the memories and the damage." In photographs of the artist in his studio, we see the most famous English painter of his generation lurking in his lair. The camera flattens the owl-like eyes and avian nose into the mask of a pudgy child surrounded...
James M. Jones, assistant professor of Psychology and Social Relations and teacher of Psych and Soc Rel 1860, "Sport, Play and Society": "I see Kentucky and UCLA in the finals, and I have a feeling that Kentucky will go all the way, though I prefer UCLA. Mainly because my respect for Wooden. But I'm very, very impressed with the enthusiasm and court pressure Kentucky combines. Do I wish we had big-time college basketball around here? Sure, it's unfortunate that we don't. It's healthy to get excited about the performance, the skill involved, the competition...
...trouble is, Wolfe is falling prey to the things he condemns. He's undergone a transformation, from reporter--or, if you prefer, realistic artist--to critic. Instead of producing things that everyone can appreciate and understand, he's given up his crusade against the cultural and become one of them. He's kept up the fight, of course--if anything, pieces like "The Painted Word" will make him more controversial than he ever was--but now takes it on the terms of his opponents, as if the critic's place is now more comfortable than the reporter...
...beat the horse races consistently isn't going to write down his theories in a book and distribute it to the world at large. A good system theoretically is worth more to its originator than book revenues could ever be, so a horseplayer with one worthy of publication should prefer to keep his theories in himself...