Word: specter
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...deal? Obviously something, or else the president of the University would not have been moved, as he was last week, to set down his views on the subject in an open letter to the Harvard community. Not since the early 1970s have college campuses had to confront the specter of angry hecklers drowning out or scaring away invited speakers, but with the return of the custom, President Bok thought it time to explain why the thing is important. But though this is a good, workman-like job, Bok's discourse leaves a sour taste--and the feeling that...
Maggie, of course, is a focal point for one of Williams' perfervid, evocative (if dramatically a bit clumsy) explorations of Southern familial passions. Her husband Brick has taken to the bottle and thrown her out of bed in despondency over the death of his best friend and the specter of his own homosexuality. Their marital crisis reaches a boil at the birthday party...
...Lanka; although they may have served as useful role models, the fact of their gender did not do much to end war or poverty in their countries or to introduce new levels of compassion to their governments. "Once the hoopla is over," says Pennsylvania's Joan Specter, "it will be back to business as usual...
...derision. None of Richard Nixon's political excesses kept him from crushing George McGovern in 1972. By the summer of 1973 the bulk of the Watergate crimes was beginning to crush him despite his stunning achievements in foreign policy. Every old sin, real and imagined, rose like a specter in the public revulsion. For Jimmy Carter it was about the time when interest rates and inflation were both hovering near 20%, the Soviets were machine-gunning their way around Afghanistan and American hostages were being held in Iran that a lot of Americans abruptly decided that his blue jeans...
Throughout the controversy set off by the mining of their harbors, the Sandinistas have refrained from a favorite tactic of the past: using the specter of imminent war with the U.S. to increase repression and further consolidate their political grip on the country. In fact, the Sandinistas were slightly loosening press censorship, and declaring their intention to proceed on schedule with national elections-criticized by the Reagan Administration as hopelessly biased in favor of the regime-on Nov. 4. Observed a Western diplomat in Managua: "For once, the Sandinistas seem to be handling the situation in a mature and sophisticated...