Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLEARLY THE GREAT DEBATE is upon us. No longer the exclusive prey of physicists, the issue of the world's ever-increasing nuclear arsenal has captured the hearts--and minds--of America. The give-and-take started in Vermont, where 161 towns so far this year have endorsed a nuclear freeze. It continued when the New Yorker published in three successive issues Jonathan Schell's apocalyptic The Fate of the Earth. It escalated when The New Republic responded to Schell by featuring a piece "in defense of deterrence." It spread further with a Newsweek cover story. And it evolved...
...border on the shrill, shortchanging the "moments of truth" that must descend on a king who has fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown sons gathered vulture-like to tear it apart. Amid all the yelling his passions provoke, his sons and enemies fall prey occasionally to the same overexcitement. The result is sort of a continuous rushing into the breach, a heroic rattling through brilliant language rather than feeling, creating a nagging sense that one has no time to catch the real Henry, the real Eleanor...
...story of a writer who commits suicide. Anyone expecting a letdown from Cradle's shuttering close should be not only pleasantly surprised but downright rolled up by a play that is satisfyingly complex and refreshingly free of the problems to which first plays by undergraduates are liable to fall prey...
...course she is. During World War II, Margaret provided her public with a diverting image of spunky innocence. Later, for the press who would not directly attack you-know-who and Prince Philip, Margaret and her husband provided vicarious prey as "the two highest paid performing dwarves in Europe." Recently she has offered comforting proof of what every commoner suspects: royalty, in the words of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, is "duty without responsibility, pomp without power"-in brief, a gilded misery. With such a history of service, Princess Margaret remains, at 51, one of the European Community...
...Under this new plan, the states would be able to reduce benefits for the poor within a few short years [by 1987]. Besides, though, only a dozen or so states currently have the bureaucratic know-how necessary to handle large, basic-income programs, the grass roots would never fall prey to the temptations of corruption. And those who dwell amid the debris and detritus of our modern cities will gladly shoulder the extra tax burden without fleeing for the suburbs...