Word: reines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual voices emerge and develop organically, subtly weaving a plot around their self-conscious lives, they would have shown her that indeed the quality of story they lived affects and transforms human life, and that individuality can't be pressed into one single mold. If allowed full rein, her own characters would not proceed unchanged through story after inset story. A talent for vivid characterization to her credit, Prose should shake loose from the confines of this genre and stamp her own individual form on her writing. She should carve the story lines out of the characters' lives instead...
...tried to steer an intellectual course between the Scylla of Socialism and the Charybdis of Conservatism. The Liberals sided with the Tories in favoring entry into the European Common Market and in opposing further nationalization of industry. They backed Labor in favoring worker participation in companies and a rein on the profits of big business. If the party platform seemed a little vague, something both the major parties took pains to point out, that was at least in the Liberal tradition. Even when it was the dominant power in the country, Historian George Dangerfield once wrote, the Liberal Party...
Otten claimed that The Wall Street Journal's history of giving loose rein to its writers has anticipated a current push by other papers to include more in-depth reporting on newsprint...
...love she locates dependence. Analysis taught her not to trust her impulses; it planted a sentry in her brain to doublethink her every move. And she never bade him exit. Now she trusts herself so little that she's glued herself into the groove of her problems. She gives rein to the antagonistic thoughts that spar in her brain and lock there like chain mail. And look, will you, at what she's done--she has used analysis in precisely the same way that she uses men: as a crutch for her own queasy personal indentity to steady itself...
That is history, for next year, everyone agrees that an economy held back by the energy shortage will need some budgetary stimulus. The question is how much. At the moment, OMB Director Roy Ash and other top budgetmakers are trying to keep the deficit under tight rein and cure the unemployment problem partly by creating new -and relatively cheap-job programs, like expanded public service employment. Last summer Ash gave Government departments budget targets that totaled about $292 billion, which was then expected to just about match anticipated revenues. The expenditure figures, though, must now be increased by $8 billion...