Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death only began to go out of style when the belligerents recognized some kind of relationship, as in the case of the Greek city states, which tried to soften their deadly rivalry through diplomacy and mercy. But such temperateness was strictly limited to social equals; Aristotle, who is credited with inventing the term "a just war," could apply it to military action "against men, who, though intended by nature to be governed, will not submit." The Romans took over the idea of a just war as an instrument of efficient administration, and Cicero laid down some pragmatic ground rules. Only...
...Career Plans issues a little booklet, neatly printed and bound in red, titled "The Harvard College Class of 19--: Its Composition, Performance, and Plans." It is based on the intentions expressed by seniors before graduation, and includes a large number of charts as well as such chapter headings as "relationship of immediate plans to certain variables...
...will help. It may be that Teddy unwittingly sought out the slut-mother in marrying Ruth, and when he introduced her to his ancestral home she intuitively found it irresistible. The play's ultimate ambiguity, which centers on the question of who uses whom in the man-woman relationship, can never be resolved. At first glance, Ruth seems exploited. The old man plans to use her for cooking and cleaning up, Lenny for his stable of tarts, and Joey for lovemaking. But after the agreement, the old man is invaded by sheer panic...
...stimulus, rather echoing Keats's famous "Negative Capability" letter when he wonders "how it was possible for Shakespeare to endure his openness to life, his selfless sense of other identities." Barber is wildly speculative, but modestly, openly so, and produces some stimulating starting points for inquiries into the relationship of artist and society...
...submarine-the girl who's under all the time-that's wrong," says a Southern coed. "So is being a professional virgin." Reasons Elizabeth Crosby, a sophomore at New College in Sarasota, Fla.: "Our attitudes are more an emphasis on relationship, and sex is bound up in this...