Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number of governments are moving in the direction of coercion. Some have introduced legal sanctions to raise the age of marriage. A few are considering direct legal limitations on family size and sanctions to enforce them. No government really wants to resort to this. But neither can any government afford to let population pressure grow so large that social frustrations finally erupt into irrational violence and civil disintegration...
There would perhaps be room for complacency in all this if the policy accompanying such awesome weaponry were that of use only as a last resort or at least that of mutual assured destruction (MAD), thereby insuring what General Douglas MacArthur said of nuclear war, that any conflict at all would be a form of "double suicide...
...millions of dollars a year more for natural gas. Even the ostensible winners, the oil and gas lobbies, are sure to see their victory diluted later on. But add to that list of losers another big victim, the U.S. Senate, whose venerable rules were fractured in a resort to steamroller tactics by the Democratic leadership...
...Episcopal Church, which remained unified while other American denominations were sundered over the slavery issue, is now dividing over women priests. Some of the dissidents are leaving to form a new church; more are staying to fight from within. Last week at a resort in Port Saint Lucie, Fla., 125 members of the church's House of Bishops met and struggled to prevent further damage...
Unlike Portnoy's Complaint, David's Jewishness is a minor motif. Although he treats David's childhood, growing up in his father's Jewish resort hotel, humorously, Roth is not interested in painting the expose of American Jewish life that he did in Portnoy's Complaint. Judaism is mainly a symbol. The Jew as an exile and survivor is used in conjunction with Roth's depiction of the ceaseless quest for love which, when found, fades only for the search to be renewed. As one of David's students writes in an essay: "The search for intimacy, not because...