Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to a remark from a member of the audience that Blacks cannot gain access to venture capital as easily as whites can, Ashe said, "The money's out there, but you have to know where to go," adding that Blacks in insurance companies could help other Blacks to find the capital they need...
...that envisions a mansion is not nearly so ambitious as one that seeks to transplant cypresses from one soil to another (as Hearst did in San Simeon) or to display the rarest species. (After seeing Lionel Rothschild's Japanese garden in London, the Japanese Ambassador was said to remark: "We have nothing like this in Japan.") Versailles, the model of gardening for so many big spenders, must have had Eden as its model, as a place at once disciplined and open-ended. That is the way the rich would have nature: apparently free yet under the thumb. They would...
...Muskie's remark apparently was the first by a senior Carter administration official which indicated the Iranian terms for release of the hostages was acceptable, even in principle...
South House's production of the play is long on energy and humor, but short on tension and meaning. Director Steve Drury maintains a quick pace by emphasizing punchy one-liners and alternating settings, but it is a peculiar quickness without tension. The audience merely waits from one witty remark to the next without expecting or hoping for any particular action. Wasserstein's views come across, but not forcefully, and they seem less relevant to life at Harvard than they ought...
Gilbert and Gubar, both university teachers, make no bones about writing from a feminist perspective; they claim that men have denied women not only the right to think, but to express themselves, a claim Gilbert and Gubar back up with some terrifying examples, one of them this remark by Gerald Manley Hopkins in 1886: "[the writer's] most essential quality is masterly execution which is a kind of male gift and especially marks off men from women, the begetting of one's thoughts on paper." Unfortunately, Hopkins was not the exception of his day; this kind of thinking left literary...