Word: resists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...differences and conflicts that grow out of these shifting values "must be brought out and dealt with," he said. Along with minorities to observe the rights of others, "we should also call on those who have the power to initiate or resist change not only to remain responsive to criticism, but also to seek it out--so that the critic knows he can be heard without shouting...
...rationality is formally stimulated by the rule that sonnets have 14 lines (who among mod poets could resist the 15th?). His surrealism-Lowell's word for it, and not really the right one-is technically encouraged by a decision to abandon rhyme and relax the meter of his sonnets-roughly the equivalent of playing checkers with chessmen on a blank board. This stylistic invitation to artistic indulgence occasionally helps betray Lowell into incoherence. Surrealism, after all, is mainly for those who applaud calculated chaos as critical therapy, a place where turned-on birds may sing but no poetry...
...twelve hours after the occupation began, the cops left their riot clubs behind and headed for Dartmouth. With equal calm, one radical announced over a bullhorn: "We want no violence. Do not taunt the cops. The people inside will not resist...
...clients who resist agency proposals, they are often labeled as "un-insightful," assigned low priorities for job programs and all but written off as hopeless cases. The result, says Scott, is that "the alert client quickly learns to behave as workers expect him to." Too many agencies for the blind offer their clients few choices for job training except a "sheltered workshop," where they make simple handicrafts and numbly acquire "skills and methods of production that may be unknown in most commercial industries." Before long, the trap has quietly closed. Now psychologically blind, Scott charges, the patient is "maladjusted...
Maclnnes' ear for the issues is sound too. His robust sympathies never crush his judgment. Beneath the charm and humor, sadness lurks. Mr. Karl Marx Bo says, looking around the Moonbeam club: "Serious individual as I am, I cannot always resist the lure of a little imitation joy." By the end, the tinsel has peeled for Johnny Fortune. After a police frame-up and a month in jail on a marijuana charge, he sets out to join his family in Lagos-full of shame and defiance: "Let them kill every Spade that's in the world, and leave...