Word: shouldering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sunk underwater. Merilee hadn't noticed. She lifted him up by the curly black hair. thus saving his life. He sputtered but didn't wake. Prodigiously-strong Merilee stood him up against the wall and dried him off with a towel and then carried him firemanstyle over her shoulder in to the bed and laid him out. The keeds came
While all his plays may simply be personal fantasies, Horovitz does not see how a play can be detached from current social issuess. even if it is an ineffectual way of dealing with them. This tremendous concern has led him to shoulder the burden of speaking at rallies, of being more direct in approach, of skipping the comedy, the dialogue and civilized ritual of a play for the head-on rhetoric of a speech. However, this role has not satisfied him either. "At the time I saw 2001, I found it so irrelevant that I couldn't get into...
...inefficient use of their buildings and their students' time. Senior faculty members, says Dr. E. Lee McLean, an adviser to several universities, consider that being asked to teach five days a week or during afternoons is an offense against professorial dignity. Factory workers in Flint, Mich., turned a cold shoulder to a bus line that offered to pick them up at their homes and drop them off at plant gates. The workers figured that men who could not drive their own cars to the plant were second-class citizens...
...people on the national soul. Said Burger: "Few things characterize our attitude toward prisoners and prisons more than indifference and impatience with the failure of the prisoner to return to society corrected and reasonably ready to earn an honest way in life." Burger looks to psychiatrists and psychologists to shoulder much of the burden of rehabilitation. "A large proportion of criminal offenders are seriously maladjusted human beings," he argued. "And those who are not maladjusted when they go in are likely to be so when they...
...broken torsos of stone have been thoughtfully placed in an exhibition of medieval sculpture. These fragments survive a sculpture of Christ's descent from the cross. His naked torso, with delicately lined ribs, looks across a gaping space of wall to another torso, clothed, with a hand on its shoulder. You attempt, a little prosaically, to visualize the arm connecting the two figures. But the eye cannot imagine an original sculpture more beautiful than the fragments. They speak cloquently in their incompleteness...