Word: shrift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readiness to use Europe as a battlefield in a limited nuclear war. Said the Frankfurter Rundschau: "There have been hints from the U.S. that war could be limited, even if an inhabited Europe would no longer exist." Defense of American policy by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl gets short shrift. Attacks on the Reagan Administration's commitment to peace by top Social Democrats are reported in full, except for a failure to note that former Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was a principal architect of the missile-deployment plan. Led by Spiegel, the leftist periodicals have depicted...
...THIS SEEMS short shrift for a major novel by one of America's foremost writers, well, it is. The book: as you might have guessed by now, is painfully bad. The writing tries to mimic the Biblical cadence which translators often give to old, mythic stories and hence seems gimmicky, especially with Mailer's consuming interest in sex and scatology (an important episode in the book comes when Menenhetet steals some of the Pharaoh's feces, I swear). But even more annoying than the problems in execution, the concerns of the book, and its vacillation between comic book heroism...
...WHOLE, Keeping Faith is an honest account of the Carter Presidency. If Carter gives short shrift to some of his weak points, he also shoulders some blame for America's disarray during his Presidency. And he does succeed in reminding us that his administration was not entirely devoid of accomplishments. In addition to Camp David, the former president deserves credit for tangible changes in U.S. affairs, at home and abroad; the Panama Canal Treaty, normalization of relations with China, the energy windfall profits tax, and civil service reform are only the most striking...
...self-realization" and "growth potential." The idea that a woman might also grow and realize herself through her children got short shrift; the notion that a man might experience the same satisfaction was either radical or sentimental and rated no attention. Fatherhood as fulfillment and as a responsibility, fulltime, is a concept that may be more popular in the '80s, when American families struggle to play catch-up with an inflationary economy and an increasingly competitive consumer society. For a woman, fulfillment may or may not remain a priority. Work has become a necessity...
...wing. When pressured, however, Bok took the small step of giving Fogg director Seymour Slive a three-week fund-raising grace period, and--as was predictable--Slive found the necessary $3 1 million. Again, it was only strong outcries that prevented Harvard from giving critical University values short shrift. The Fogg decision, as one professor noted this spring, was "the worst message the University has sent to the academic world in 40 years...