Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hoped they would do--provoke counter reflections by the ethnocentric spokespersons among Black students like Anthony Ball, Timothy Wilkins, Alan Shaw, and Christopher Farley. But these counter reflections radiated more heat than enlightenment, and while I'm not against some heat in such discussions it should be used to sharpen and advance enlightenment--not obscure and hinder it. I have several comments to offer by way of rebuttal...
...hamstrung for the 1980 trials and also broke down during the Helsinki World Championships a year ago. Her resolve is stony: "I want to do all the commercials. I want fame and fortune." But her 5-ft. 5-in., 115-lb. body is made of china. "If you sharpen a pencil point so finely," says Leslie Kaminoff, Ashford's physical therapist, "it can break...
...tube on the face of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. But whereas the Pompidou's tube is a mere people mover, MOMA's moving staircases work in a celebratory space, full of light and air. The view through the glass as one mounts and descends can only sharpen the pleasurable contrast between nature and culture that was the point of Philip Johnson's original garden design. The escalator bank is Pelli's mam flourish. The galleries themselves are neutral, not Architecture with...
Caddell, says one Hart staffer, "helped Gary sharpen the contrast between himself and Mondale." Says Caddell...
...succession is certain to sharpen debate within the Reagan Administration on how to deal with the Soviets. Some State Department officials tend to see the change in leadership as an opportunity to improve U.S.-Soviet relations by substantially modifying the U.S. START proposal to bring it closer to the Soviet position. The Pentagon, on the other hand, believes that the U.S. should not present new ideas and in effect reward the Soviets for walking out of the talks. They also suspect that the Soviet leadership is too much in disarray to negotiate an arms agreement...