Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roundabout logic, he finds it necessary to justify his rather rosy conclusions about leaders like the Shah or Sadat. "We may not like authoritarian rule," he writes predictably, "but for many countries there simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays the condescension implicit in the notion that some peoples are somehow "unprepared" for democracy or that well, yellow people are for some reason...
Otherwise let us take courage and remind ourselves that trials like these strengthen character in the end; let us silence the sinister skeptics among us who suggest that this is really curtains forever for "Doonesbury" --that Trudeau's line about a "vacation" is a ploy to ease readers into the more terrible truth--and finally, let us fantasize. Maybe Garry Trudeau still draws a strip every day and puts it away in a drawer. Maybe in 1984 at the end of his sabbatical, he'll set them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames...
Though the biography does not make Mailer's mystique any more attractive than reading his works might suggest, it does provide a new sensitivity to both the author and his literature. Mills doesn't tell you what to think of the man who works with incredible efficiency under deadlines and makes mythical heroes out of Marilyn Monroe and Gary Gilmore. But what she tells you is enough, at least, to enable the reader to speculate on his absurdity...
...description of our daughter's performance at Madison Square Garden as "mediocre." A roomful of ribbons and trophies attests to the fact that she is a fine horseback rider and competitor. To dismiss her ride at the Garden as mediocre is insensitive as well as inaccurate. Might I suggest the word unsuccessful...
...extraordinary levels of hormones produced by the giant mice also suggest the possibility of "genetic farming," that is, using animals to produce large quantities of medically useful substances. Genetic engineers have already reprogrammed simple organisms like bacteria and yeast to produce insulin and growth hormone, but these have not proved to be fertile ground for producing blood-clotting agents needed by hemophiliacs. Harvesting such substances from large animals could be more fruitful...