Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCurdy doesn't deny the role of favorite. "Frankly, we're looking past this one. That may be a dangerous thing to do, but you can't get worked up about all of them," he explained...
...Another training session. Every day, again and again, one salesman is selected to play the role of salesman and two others play Mr. and Mrs. Jones. And everybody has to act excited by the show although they have heard it dozens of times...
Here is the wish-world of the soap opera, where intuition triumphs and the end of the story is clear from the beginning. As in much advertising, there is a testimonial, a laboratory report by an unbiased observer, and ad-man, lab-man who drops the role of impartial analyst to lead the NAC "tour of the zoo" while testing his product. And like the media, the tract appeals to a valued life-style-in this case, a morally superior one. The reporter is even strata-spherically above accepting the University's blood-stained brownies. And consider the drama...
...miss a fundamental point. The Center for International Affairs is not much different from most social science departments in the type of research and methodological outlook it encourages. Center research and policy advice is dominated by a tacit assumption pervasive among social scientists in general, namely that their role is to devise solutions to problems without overstepping the institutional and political confines of contemporary American society, and without violating our carbon copy image for what a good society would be like in other countries...
Gray emphasized his role as a contributor to the team when questioned about his individual play. "In practice I try to concentrate on learning to anticipate the moves of the guys I play with," Bob said...