Word: staked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anderson's aides are still struggling over issues papers since the candidate soon must stake out a credible position different from those taken by Reagan and Carter, a delicate undertaking to be sure. But as last week's press conference demonstrated, the Anderson campaign is capable of inventive thinking...
...those particular instances, the dangers of loyalty were largely professional. When wider issues are at stake, however, a loyal friend may be a traitor to the rest of us. E.M. Forster, who wrote a moving, if porous, defense of personal loyalty in 1939, of all years, declared: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." Forster then went on to concede that his viewpoint might be shocking and called upon Dante for support, arguing that Dante placed "Brutus and Cassius in the lowest circle...
...historical pageant, sometimes operetta. The language veers from the chivalric mode to slangy vernacular. Things begin in a comedic vein with the babbling buffoonery of Merlyn (James Valentine) and the blimpish insularity of King Pellinore (Paxton Whitehead), and then turn somber with the threatened burning of Guenevere at the stake...
...Field Trials were a fast race to nowhere. For American athletes, the road to Moscow was closed when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Still the Trials went on last week in Eugene, Ore., a pleasant college town that calls itself the track and field capital of the nation. At stake was the somewhat empty designation "Olympian," a set of bright new red, white and blue U.S.A. uniforms for the top three finishers in each event, and an invitation to the White House July 30. Though the U.S. Olympic Committee went to pains to emphasize the importance of the Trials and call...
...mess of blues," wailed Elvis Presley in a 1960 hit. But now that Elvis is gone, it is judges who have a mess of the blues. They are struggling to decide whether the rights to capitalize on Presley's fame died with him. At stake are millions of dollars in royalties from the sales of T shirts, posters and other memorabilia featuring the former King of Rock 'n' Roll...