Word: spinelessness
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...perennials are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three women v. a spineless ne'er-do-well...
...there are The Miracle Worker, the story of the child Helen Keller and her teacher, superbly played by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke; The Tenth Man, Paddy Chayefsky's modern use of ancient Jewish mysticism; and Toys in the Attic, the savage piece about three women v. a spineless ne'er-do-well...
Shudder at the Summit. In his tirade, Khrushchev portrayed President Eisenhower as "spineless," incompetent and dishonest. "When he is no longer President, and if he chooses to work in our country, we could give him a job as a director of a children's home-I am sure he would not harm the children. But it is dangerous for a man like this to run a nation. I say so because I know him. I saw the way he behaved at the Geneva summit conference in 1955, and I felt sorry...
...strategic problem lies with the teachers, their bumbling organizations and their ineffectual leadership." In fact, "school administration is degenerating precisely because school administrators ask instead of tell the public what should be taught in the schools." As Lieberman sees it, "teachers have miseducated the public very effectively, by their spineless abdication of professional autonomy, by their failure to enforce high standards for entry and performance, by their political impotence and by their moral evasion...
...against trying to "major" in both church and civic affairs-one must "major in one and minor in the other, and there is no question as to which must be the major field of operation." Bishop Love also urged them not to be too popular. "You may preach a spineless, conforming-to-things-as-they-are sort of Gospel that may not cost you anything. If you do, you may please the people and have a comfortable existence, but you will not have peace of mind...