Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...excuse seeks to extenuate, sometimes to remove the blame entirely from something which would otherwise be at fault. It can seek to extenuate in three ways. First, it can seek to suggest that what is seen as a fault is not really one. Second, it can suggest that, though there has been a fault, the agent is not really blameworthy, because he is not responsible. And finally, it can suggest that, though there has been a fault, and though the agent is responsible, he is not really to blame because he has good reasons to do as he did." (Sissela...
LAST WEEK, the Walt Disney Corporation announced plans to construct five new theme amusement parks in various locations around the globe. In order to confer the greatest possible benefit on the world's population at large, I suggest that one of the new Disneylands be centered on the holy city of Jerusalem...
...that may be. The problem now, in a popular Washington phrase of our day, is damage control. That cannot be achieved by escape, as was so brilliantly accomplished in the matter of a degree for President Ronald Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording of the award be amended to include in the title the names of some of Mr. Meese's more widely noticed predecessors in office, Republicans of course. Let this be called the Daugherty Mitchell-Kleindienst Award for Public Service. The name will have modest relevance, will admirably dilute...
...dancers somewhat resemble fresh laundry themselves in their loose white costumes. Lying on the floor, they suggest the rotating wash cycle by briskly waving their arms and legs. Later, as the action speeds up, they swing rolled- up sheets that churn around Penny Hutchinson, who plays a sort of heroine- housewife. Set to music and words by Herschel Garfein, the fantasy moves from borderline silly to giddily lyrical. Morris laughs at soap-company ad pitches but not at the washday ritual. For the indomitable housewife he has open affection...
...death in America is too often controlled by machines rather than nature. In a sharp departure from the past, when most Americans died at home, an estimated 80% now die in hospitals or nursing homes, often surrounded by a thicket of tubes and life-extending apparatus. Public opinion surveys suggest that most Americans fear and oppose this invasion of one of life's most private moments. Last year a Louis Harris poll of 1,254 adults found that 85% thought a terminally ill patient "ought to be able to tell his doctor to let him die"; 82% supported the idea...