Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lovely moment when the bearded, black-suited Wilder, who has just been beaten and robbed, sees some Amish farmers, mistakes them for Jews and rushes toward them, rejoicing at the top of his voice in Yiddish. Another piece of superior nuttiness has Wilder trying, and utterly failing, to suppress his gabby, questioning nature at supper among the silent monks of a Trappist monastery...
...tremendous response to the Holy Father proves that a strong-willed people can endure and triumph over those who wish to suppress them...
...flavor of this play is Tennessee Williams in a mildewed tea bag. The setting is a dilapidated gingerbread boathouse in Lebanon, Mo. The time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to suppress emotion in gentility, a twin sister to Alma Winemiller of Summer and Smoke. The hero, Matt (Judd Hirsch), is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, a bachelor of 42 and one of life's perennial Gentleman Callers...
...diminish their importance in order to elevate ethnic and sexual criteria. [But] he has no right to intrude into the internal processes which enable universities to perform their proper functions; he has no right, although he might legislate that right for himself from now till doomsday, to suppress or cripple" the pursuit of knowledge...
...more serious danger is that the country may slide into anarchy. Government forces have been barely able to suppress uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile...