Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this weekend, when he decided to go public, he locked all those personal matters away and vowed he would not raise them as he crusades for a strong defense, for a clearer national vision of where we are going. One could almost hear the relief over at the State Department because the chastened Henry Kissinger, blamed by some (and maybe even by Schlesinger) for the firing, worried to his aides that Schlesinger might be more of a problem outside the Government than...
...black students continue to attend Harvard-Radcliffe in scores. Some grapple with the institution head on in an attempt to carve out an identity, sitting at Black tables in the dinning halls, participating in Big Brother programs with disadvantaged Boston youngsters, feeling perhaps an inordinate amount of pride and relief when Freddie Hubbard and James Baldwin come to Harvard and relate superbly both as artists and Black men. Others feel no compulsion to address the question of race at all, moving through the maze of intense Harvard experiences, positive and negative, as independent entities. Either attitude has its advantages...
...Cold). Sarastro, once the Queen's husband, is dabbling in some dark arts that turn out to be nothing more mysterious than the rites of Freemasonry. Tamino is aided in his quest by a forester named Papageno (Hakan Hagegard), whose robust cowardice at times of stress provides comedy relief. The two men, sensing they have been duped by the Queen of the Night, give themselves over to Sarastro's trial of honor. Their reward is true love: Tamino is immediately enamored of Pamina, Papageno swept away by a fey creature named Papagena (Elisabeth Eriksson...
...doses of lubricity included to get the unconverted over the rough parts. Assignations are revealed, suicides initiated and plots thickened. One resident spills out a tale of hot romance with his sister. His parents did not approve and shipped him off to the hostel for safekeeping. Jackson finds religious relief- and, one supposes, some measure of sexual satisfaction - by strapping a belt of thorns around her waist very tightly. The collaborationist priest craves extra desserts at mealtimes...
...upshot is that the nation seems likely to wind up with an oil-price policy that has some potentially beneficial provisions and some serious flaws. Gradual decontrol is certainly preferable to abrupt decontrol. But the price rollback, while giving some temporary relief to inflation-pressed consumers, probably would boost oil consumption and depress production. And the bill contains no special tax incentives for pumping out hard-to-get oil. In short, Congress has only postponed the tough steps that must eventually be taken to free the nation from its growing dependence on foreign...