Word: suggest
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Your article on herpes simplex [July 28], while accurate insofar as the clinical experience of the disease is concerned, presented an overly pessimistic portrayal of its human dimensions. Certainly having herpes is annoying and at times inconvenient; but to suggest that incessant guilt, shame, depression and suicidal feelings are anything more than exceptions -rare exceptions-is to emphasize the exceptions at the expense of the rule...
...with people that Strauss had to stand in the doorway, stretching his neck to see the screen. Except for Kennedy's voice, there was no sound in the trailer. Jody Powell broke the stillness with a crack about the Senator's being in an easy position to suggest things, and the group grunted approval. Jerry Rafshoon piped up: "You tell them, Teddy," voicing the resentment in the room...
...actually better than he gets credit for; the problem is that the White House has failed to communicate it effectively. Says an aide: "Carter can actually run on his record, as ridiculous as that may sound at first to some people." But Caddell disagrees. Says he: "I would suggest that there is little to be gained in trying to refight the past three years to prove some point that some people feel about the Administration's performance...
...than the ash from Mount St. Helens. It fills the air. It smells of nothing organic but manure, yet even that smell is not precise; it is tinged with an odor at once dead and sweet. Only fragments in the rubble-wire nettings, a square of bathroom tile ?suggest that life ever existed in that place. Beyond the dust lawns, sudden green weeds have begun a crazy garden, as if the wilderness had decided to reclaim the neighborhood...
...Composer Arnold Schoenberg spent a few months in Barcelona. It seemed only natural for a colleague to suggest that a composition by the revolutionary Viennese master should be played at a local concert. Schoenberg reacted with mock alarm. "I have made many friends here who have never heard my works but who play tennis with me," he said. "What will they think of me when they hear my horrible dissonances...