Word: regard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some women profess to regard Lois as a pioneering role model, the only go- getting female reporter. (Older observers can recall that Brenda Starr has been tearing through the comic pages since 1940, and that real-life role models of the period included such famous bylines as Anne O'Hare McCormick, Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Thompson, Genet, Marguerite Higgins and Dorothy Kilgallen.) As a chauvinist creation, Lois not only bungled most of her assignments and repeatedly double-crossed the faithful Clark, but also subordinated all professional demands to her one romantic obsession. After she parachutes into a flood, she tells...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
Achebe said Western conceptions of Africa were often formed by "experts and foreign correspondents," mostly white writers and missionaries who wrote of their own prejudices without regard for the Black perspective. "European reliance on their own experts would not worry us if it didn't exclude the African experience itself," he said...
...explaining the purpose of the committeereview, Bok said he thought the role of an outsideexamination is to assess academic merit, as if thecase had never been considered. "The committeeconducted its deliberations, and I arrived at mydecision without regard to the faculty vote oflast spring," he wrote in a press statement...
...board was ready to approve it, but some legal issues had to be cleared up in regard to parking," said Lester W. Barber, director of land use and zoning for Cambridge Community Development. "Overall, the prognosis for the proposal is good for the next meeting [on March...