Word: strove
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...alienation generally referred to as "marginality." Though that analysis has been used for decades to explain Jews' affinity for progressive politics in this country, as well as in Europe. Rothman and Lichter customize the proposition by divining from their charts and graphs that this particular group of Jews subconsciously strove to destroy the essentially "Christian institutions which helped keep them on the "margin" of American society. Compounding this psychological maelstrom, say the authors, was a tendency toward authoritarianism within SDS. They depict the Jewish (male) activists as victims of savage domineering mother-weakling father complexes--a group of insecure intellectuals...
DIED. Edward F. Gibbons, 63, chairman and chief executive officer since 1978 of the F.W. Woolworth Co.; after a brief illness; in Valhalla, N.Y. Gibbons strove to revive the stodgy company with more detailed budgeting, more specific planning and fewer stores that catered exclusively, in his words, to "old birds like myself." Only last September, in a decisive move to streamline and, he hoped, strengthen the business, he resolved to close all 336 outlets of the flagging Woolco discount chain (cutting the company-by 30%) and to sell Woolworth's British subsidiary...
Similarly, Clarke strove to make his actors feel what it is like to be a killing machine. Although most of the troupe members were five or six at the height of the Vietnam war, Clarke has a clearer memory of the war because both his brothers fought...
...boys. He emigrated more than a decade ahead of such refugees from Nazism as Gropius and Mies. He settled in California, which is a long way from Yale, Harvard, New York City and Chicago, where architectural history, if not always made, is almost always written. Perhaps to compensate, Neutra strove so stridently for more than his share of recognition that irritated critics may have given him less than he deserved...
...problem is that these centers have intensely personal characters, so you don't know how they will grow and orient themselves," says Sherwin, an expert on the history of the arms race. He explains that in the Cold War climate of the 1950s and 1960s, many scholars strove to show how broadly nuclear weapons could be used by the United States, especially as a deterrent to Soviet aggression in Europe. Sherwin is one of a growing number of experts who questions the effectiveness of deterrence over the long term as U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals bulge and the danger...