Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave," and, while avoiding a more traditional setting, it aids in conveying a sense of the story by its quality that avoids space, time, and formal definition. In this sense, the set is not avant-garde; instead of imposing a context upon the audience which would force it to reject previous conception of "a set", Kaplan counts on the audience to relate the shapes and colors on stage to ideas of timelessness and flexible space, hoping to provide it with a solid base from which it can build its understanding of the play...
...harbored hopes for his election forgot about another club tradition: black balling. Like the judicial role that let the lawyers for the Klansmen in Greensboro, N.C., dismiss possible jurors because they didn't like the look in their eyes, the black ball is a simple concept. Any member can reject any nominee for membership if he doesn't like something about the nominee--school background, personality, skin color, sexual preference or taste in shoes...
...since it forcibly formed the East bloc after World War II. Indeed, events there have, in a sense, stripped the clothes right off the empire. Walesa and his colleagues in the Solidarity leadership know that they are, as it were, condemned to Communism; their basic goal is not to reject the system but to make it work better...
Faculty CRR members reject student charges that the committee targeted the political leadership of SDS, rather than uniformly assigning penalties to undergraduates on the basis of the actual rules they broke. "No, there is no truth to this," Wilson says. "They said this at the time; they said the CRR was targeting certain people. They said that to me as they threatened me [as he walked into the CRR hearings]. But to this day, I don't know who the officers of SDS were...
...entered an age so headlong in its rush toward the future that the old no longer had much of value to teach the young. Well, the future no longer seems quite so wildly original. But even in rigidly traditional epochs, it was human nature for one generation to reject, dynamite and otherwise ridicule the structures and ideas of the previous generation in order to make room for its own. Often enough, when the Oedipal din has died down, the world has been left with a new wheel rather like the old one. St. Augustine detested his fa ther and rejected...