Word: substitutees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Two Republican Presidents have emphasized private charity as a substitute for the heavy hand of government in addressing social needs. Reagan had his Private Sector Initiatives program. Bush has his "thousand points of light" -- a throwaway bit of imagery that has spawned a vast public relations exercise.
The wisest strategy right now may be to redouble those efforts to eat more broccoli and carrots, spinach and squash. And to follow the familiar exhortations: get up and get moving, cut down fat and cut out smoking. No matter how powerful antioxidants and the other nutrients turn out to...
Sam has become Hally's substitute father over the years, and their recollections are beautiful and moving. Fugard's language is at its best here. Sam and Hally talk about the map of South Africa Hally had to make for school--Sam remembers all the cities; they remember Sam and...
As for the A.C.L.U., it considers the bill a dangerous threat to the First Amendment. So does an Ad Hoc Committee of Feminists for Free Expression, whose members include such noted writers as Betty Friedan, Nora Ephron and Erica Jong. In a Valentine's Day letter to the Judiciary Committee...
Equally significant is the flood of substitute religions. The most prominent of these is the so-called New Age movement -- a vast, amorphous hodgepodge of spiritualism, faith healing, reincarnation, meditation, yoga, macrobiotic diets, mystical environmentalism and anything else that helps transform the self. Its followers sound as if they were...