Word: revell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never get nervous before a race," she says. "I greet that type of pressure with a lot of positive feeling. I revel...
...frustration that nags us in the face of the book's skepticism may be indicative of our more general frustrations with liberalism's inconclusive relevancy--frustration heightened this election year. Shklar seems to revel in such feelings. In Ordinary Vices, she asks us to do the same--while we are still free...
...most unlikely. Because the stock of American companies in South Africa is peculiarly tainted? That rationale is also unrealistic. The argument that divestment will be a peculiarly effective gesture must presumably rest on the belief that divestment will cost Harvard money and thus represent a sacrifice which will revel the depth of our convictions...
...concerto. This rawboned yet ardently romantic piece gets a grand reading from Ax and Levine. But they never get so concerned with profundity that they forget that it is, after all, the work of a 25-year-old still finding his way. Particularly in the spirited finale, the performers revel in the concerto's fresh, youthful passion...
...presidential nomination. Hardly anyone noticed, and he dropped out of the race after a year. In the Senate, he is a leading member of the Finance Committee, and also acutely attuned to the complexities of immigration. As head of the Senate Democrats' re-election apparatus, he seems to revel in the prosaic details of fund raising, telephone banks and tracking surveys...