Word: refrain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both delivered their opening remarks on the same day. Confident and assured, Vorontsov boasted that the new Soviet constitution that had just been adopted embodied all the basic principles of the Helsinki accord. He pointedly warned that "cooperation in humanitarian and other fields" is only possible if all countries refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs. That same afternoon, Goldberg delivered his speech, which had been much revised by Administration policy planners. The final approved version did not clatter over the embassy Teletype from Washington until 2:30 a.m. the day he was to read it. Startling...
...understanding that systematic discrimination against minorities in America's institutions of higher learning until the recent past, has historically discouraged all but a handful of minorities from even contemplating, let alone applying and competing to enter these institutions. Thus the mandate that affirmative action imposes on universitites is to refrain from any admissions processes that might continue to discourage minorities. This means more than showing no signs of discrimination; admissions committees are obliged to take positive and explicit action, as did the U.C. Davis admissions program, to ensure that even disadvantaged minorities will know that, if qualified, the equal opportunity...
...will sink into another corner of sour anatomy. You would never hear your heart pounding anyway. Even if there were an ominous moment, your heartbeat would be blared out by cliched music of the horror-movie ilk. Every potentially scary minute is ruined, and by the third or fourth refrain the music is not even campy enough to be funny...
...tales, Milkman retraces his family's steps. He travels to Pennsylvania where a crone named Circe adds to his family history. In the small Virginia town where his grandfather was born, Milkman hears a group of children sing a song that provides the key to his past. The refrain, "Solomon done fly, Solomon done gone/ Solomon cut across the sky, Solomon gone home,"tells the story of an ancestor's mythical escape from slavery. For the reader, the song unlocks the richness of the novel. It is a book in which Morrison achieves her fifth stage- an artistic...
...Niro clearly wants much more than that-not just to convince an audience that he grew up holding a sax, or living in Sicily, or playing baseball, but to convince him self. "If only there had been more time" is a constant De Niro refrain...