Word: spar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trust her impulses; it planted a sentry in her brain to doublethink her every move. And she never bade him exit. Now she trusts herself so little that she's glued herself into the groove of her problems. She gives rein to the antagonistic thoughts that spar in her brain and lock there like chain mail. And look, will you, at what she's done--she has used analysis in precisely the same way that she uses men: as a crutch for her own queasy personal indentity to steady itself and steer by. And worse, she doesn't know that...
...special arena. He is awfully good at summitry. He was across the table from another tough leader who has knocked his way to the top and knows the destructibility of politicians and their dreams. The press and the public were far enough away not to bother, and Nixon could spar with Brezhnev even while signaling that as a member of the summit fraternity he understood Brezhnev's problems back home...
...launched missile system, which involves at least ten advanced subs with 24 missiles each. Both sides are expected to spend heavily on observation satellites to detect any cheating by the other. They can also spend heavily, if they wish, on new nuke-carrying bombers. As both nations continue to spar for technical advantages, no immediate savings in weapons costs are expected...
...these characters, the bar is a spar to which they cling in the shipwreck of existence and over which they confess their hidden better selves. These confessional arias are what they have always been in Williams, eloquent trib utes to the English tongue and moving explorations of the human spirit. This is not to say that Small Craft Warnings is on a par with the durable canon of his finest plays. Here he reminds us of the size and scope of his genius, but dis plays it diminuendo. Call this then a five-finger exercise from...
They act out the roles of their parents and worry aloud about sex; they spar with each other, alternately reassuring and shattering the fragile defenses their comrades have constructed...