Word: sate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Liverpool, in a house on Highgate Avenue, Frank and Nora Elliot pick at each other like vultures who cannot wait for death to sate their appetites. They tear away while the flesh is still warm...
...Hateful of sacrifice for the public good, every interest group will demand its accustomed larger share of a non-expanding pie, causing disillusion, further inflation and possible class conflict (which translates into "chaos" for most of the Public Interest theorists). In an economy which can no longer afford to sate hedonism, the individualistic legacy of John Stuart Mill must be traded in for the approach of the principled conservatives, Burke and Tocqueville. Enlightened economic self-interest is no longer a sufficient rationale for the continuation of capitalism: the masses must now be provided with a new "liberal" philosophy justifying restraint...
...teaching certificate in 1912 was recently headlined in the New York Times. Going on sale next week is a facsimile of the Ulysses manuscript (three volumes; Octagon Books). Price: $150. For a writer who labored half his life in seething obscurity, Joyce has achieved a renown that might sate even his massive Irish appetite for irony...
...observations, while casual and broad, are part of a long self-examination and political experience. I have spent seventeen years as an urban Democrat (from Queens) in the New York Sate Senate--eleven campaigns and endless contact with the needs and demands of my constituents. My principal contribution to politics is my ability to address difficult problems in depth and write about them at length; my publications, which have been remarkably accurate and influential, range from analyses of educational financing to advice to young people who get in trouble. I serve from time to time as Party Platform Chairman...
...European romanticism gave form to, even imposed them selves on, the vision of the West: the vast "sanctuary of nature" suited the encyclopedic dialogue between nature and culture that animated the significant painting and writing of the 19th century. Like the Swiss Alps, the West proffered images to sate the most grandiose appetite. Thus paintings like Thomas Hill's Yosemite Valley, 1889, were much in demand: big studio pieces, full of beetling crags and waterfalls, and filled with a liberating sense of the "otherness" of nature...