Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books still muddle on, oppressed by this same unshakeable world-weariness. They find themselves in the thick of Third World liberation struggles, but somehow never take the politics seriously. They fall in love, but always with the assumption that love will never last. In fits of decency they even relinquish their ideological aloofness to take partisan stands, but never so much out of conviction as out of a shrugging sense that if you have to go about the tiresome business of living, you might as well do it with honor. They try praying it out, sinning it out, killing, conspiring...
...proposals, approved by representatives of the White House and the Penobscot and Passamoquoddy Indian tribes, call in part for Congress to appropriate $25 million to the tribes in exchange for the Indians' agreement to relinquish claims to 7.5 million acres in one area of the state...
...humor. Murray Burns (George Miller), its rebellious and endearing hero, is an unemployed scriptwriter sickened by the necessity to toady to an imbecilic boss. He conducts a one-man protest against hypocrisy and convention, cultivating an air of lunacy to satirize and condemn the emptiness of those who relinquish their freedom for security. Murray holds spirited conversations with the Weather Lady, warning her not to repeat herself, thinks nothing of taking trips to the Statue of Liberty, and habitually admonishes his unheeding neighbors to show up for the next community sing. Murray constructs his own world, one with...
...play's end there still remains the disorienting disclosure of the performers' gender. All along, The Club has been a bastion of masculinity whose patrons have seemed enamored of their lifestyle and loath to relinquish it. But suddenly we learn that the play is intended to reflect what women believe men think. Throwing off its comic guise. The Club reveals itself to be social commentary...
...administration has insisted that Israel must be willing to relinquish control of large parts of the occupied territories and, more important, accept direct representation of the Palestinian refugees in any Geneva peace negotiations, and that the Arabs and Palestinians, for their part, must be willing to recognize and guarantee Israel's right to exist. This insistence reflects a commendable willingness to confront the most basic--and hence controversial--issues involved in the Middle East dispute. Indeed, as all the parties involved have pointed out, a failure to reach an understanding on these questions and establish a mutually acceptable framework within...