Word: suggester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moynihan's pseudo-scholarly attack on the left on Commencement day grew radically more offensive as he offered contemporary society the couch and set into some armchair analysis. A few excerpts illustrate the profound insight of Moynihan's thinking: "I would suggest that a liberal culture does indeed succeed in breeding aggression out of its privileged class...I do not believe that the young elites of this moment who will explain away any act, howsoever monstrous, of Arab terrorists or New World dictatorships do so out of admiration. I believe they do so out of fear. And with this fear...
...objecting, as some do, to the archaic language that Miller has used to suggest the historical period and create a Brechtian distance between audience and player. The chief agents are the use of "Mister" to address the men and of "Goody" (colloquialism for "Goodwife") to refer to the women, along with a lot of unusual third-person verb forms ("He have his goodness now"). But one has only to compare The Crucible with Shaw's Saint Joan--another play that climaxes with confession, recantation and martyrdom--to see how much greater a master of language the Briton...
...from following our own path? The frontiers are what they are." This statement implies that NATO might defend "Communism with a human face" in Italy from the Red army. If the Italian comrades believe that a "democratic Communism" can only exist behind the shield of the free world, I suggest that they take the decisive step: break their link with Moscow...
...fishing vessel and now owned by the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. While most of the tall ships are being manned by male cadets, the smaller topsail schooner Sir Winston Churchill, owned by England's Sail Training Association, is carrying 42 female sail trainees. In their massed splendor, the ships suggest another Masefield image: "They mark our passage as a race of men,/ Earth will not see such ships as those again...
...intention, however, of staying away from the capital indefinitely. On his return to St. Petersburg, he is planning to move out of the Winter Palace?but only to a hotel near the Hermitage, which is connected to the palace by a private passage. Indeed, some court sources suggest that it was Potemkin himself who actually selected Secretary Zavadovsky as Catherine's new adjutant general because he knows the newcomer is unlikely to threaten the political power that Potemkin still holds...