Word: resisting
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...appear in a very different light. The title of that committee's 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," immediately conjures up the specter of the Fascist society that America had just helped defeat in war. When President Conant in 1936 called for an educational program that could resist the "wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping around the world," the purpose and the value of the liberal arts ideal was very clear. But while liberal arts has continued to embody American values, these values no longer seem as noble as they did after the defeat of Hitler...
...Lance and Marsden affairs. Yet the good has far outweighed the bad. Half-assed answers are not necessarily better than no solution at all. Congressmen and the nation's economic elite their help in solving the biggest problems of the decade. Carter realizes this, and despite his efforts to resist the traditional inertia of national politics, he is getting pressure from all sides to be sensible, compromise and hold hands with the corrupt...
Feet feet (I couldn't resist): Footholds, billed as "a dramatic collage of women's writings," plays Sunday at 8 at the Newbury Street Theater...
...scenes. That leaves the dialogue to pass the time, so we are treated to Olivier saying, after startling a skeptical Tommy Lee Jones with a finished engine for the dream car, "Did you think I was just an old man jerkin' off?" And poor Katherine Ross, who can't resist father-in-law Olivier after witnessing his potency with the French maid, crawls into bed with him and says, "I'm sorry, but I had to be close," and later, "I love you, Loren, even if I have to be damned...
Ever felt tempted on a snowy day to throw back your head and drink in some of those pure white flakes? Try to resist the impulse. After testing samples of snow from several Kansas City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead that measured six times the level specified in the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water standards. Even water from the polluted Kansas River proved less leaden than the snow. According to Roberts, car exhausts and factories are spewing into the environment 1,000 times the natural level of lead...