Word: resister
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Last week, the Polish government commemorated the 30th anniversary of the resistance with a 25-minute wreath-laying ceremony at a massive black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto. Said Marek Edelman, 53, the only leader of the uprising who still lives in Poland: "We proved that a few people, hungry and poorly equipped, could resist, and that the Germans were not a superhuman force...
Though these recommendations aim to expand energy supplies quickly, there is some doubt whether Congress will approve them all. The consumer-oriented Senate Commerce Committee seems likely to resist the proposal to deregulate new natural gas, for example because the measure may well cause gas prices to soar-despite Administration arguments. The recommendation to build offshore ports will provoke the opposition of legislators and Governors from East Coast states, who fear that oil spills will ruin their shorelines and wetlands...
...Resist. Yet the Nixon Administration continues to resist all efforts to push it into wage-price controls that would go beyond the ineffectual voluntarism of Phase III. Treasury Secretary George Shultz announced that "a general across-the-board freeze is not under active consideration." Instead, the Administration turned its energies to lobbying against a House bill that would have frozen most prices and interest rates at March 16 levels. It succeeded, with help from businessmen and farmers who cried to their Congressmen that the bill would force them into profit-wrecking price rollbacks. The House defeated the bill...
...inevitable as taxes, and awesome in its finality. Preparation for dying and what lay beyond preoccupied man and defined civilizations. But building pyramids, lighting eternal flames, and performing rituals, no matter how extravagant, could never alter an individual tragedy or the grim common destiny. One could resist death for a while, and with a little luck, choose where and when. But with few delays or complications, death always got its man. And when you were dead, you were dead. Those were the good old days...
...short poems; as it turns out, most of them help prove what Dey's manifesto says about journeymen-poets: that they get bogged down in simply mastering details of techniques, that they must be more than occasional poets to catch the eye of an audience, that they have to resist the temptation of formalizing trivial sensations and impressions, and that, somehow, they have to find subjects - or invent them - that are strong enough to match the potential of verse...