Word: shirked
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...every chain publisher is so modest in his opinions-or, if you prefer, so content to shirk his editorial responsibility. John S. Knight, 83, has exercised self-restraint in inflicting his decided views on the 34-paper Knight-Ridder chain, which includes such fine dailies as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Knight, an Eisenhower conservative and friend of Nixon's, lost a son in World War II. From Dien Bien Phu on, he warned against American involvement in Southeast Asia, and when the U.S. did get involved, he continued to oppose...
...parcel of that free world, and that America in that sense is also South Africa's leader. Unfortunately, if I am disowned by my leader, I have no option but to go it alone. It's not by choice, but I'm not going to shirk it. I don't mind being kicked in the pants -I'm quite used to that-but I'm damned if I'm going to be kicked in the teeth all the time...
...reification, frustration, want, solitude, against a suspected background of possible plenitude"--but that's another story). Even the Invisible Man, who lives in a hole in a basement lit by exactly 1369 light bulbs, cannot be allowed--as a valid literary invention and especially as a black man--to shirk the contradictions of the whole planet: let's say, the contradiction between the atomic war and the people's war. This demand isn't as finicky as it sounds. The precise form of his awareness isn't too important: "A vague anguish drifting from page to page is enough...
Warren, 70, whose career has included Pulitzer Prizes for both poetry and fiction, does not shirk controversy in these two sinuously reasoned essays. He contends that art and democracy feed on each other, because both depend on the play of unfettered minds. At first glance, this seems preposterous; Western art has flourished under monarchies, tyrannies and varied refractions of the Imperial style. But Warren argues that the Greek dramatists and Roman poets created the very concept of free, responsible men that "in an imperfect, stumbling, and ragged way was to become more and more widely available." In the fullness...
...have not sought this enormous responsibility, but I will not shirk it. Those who nominated me and confirmed me as Vice President were my friends and are my friends. They were of both parties, elected by all the people, and acting under the Constitution in their name. It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the people. Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together, and no way anybody can win except by serving...