Word: suppress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than nonparents, presumably because they had learned to decipher the babbling of babies. Women were more adept than men, which seems to indicate that "female intuition" is no sexist myth. And actors rated high, while psychologists scored surprisingly low-perhaps, Archer says, because they are trained to suppress their own emotions and tend to lose the ability to recognize emotion in others...
...moral argument is not long or preachily dwelt on. Nor is a romance that might have developed between Redford and Jane Alexander, playing the Governor's aide who got him appointed. One sees the spark flash between them and then watches them immediately suppress it, as men and women often do when a larger task is at hand. Both are excellent, as are Yaphet Kotto and David Keith as prisoners trying to decide if they dare to give their trust to Brubaker. One might wish that Director Rosenberg could control his ever zooming, ever panning camera. Stillness would have...
...trailing without its partner. This is the traditional "missing buddy" formation of the U.S. Air Force, a symbol of mourning for lost fliers. On the ground, in a green park just inside the gates of Hurlburt Field, some of the toughest men in the armed services could not suppress their tears...
...possible vehicle of a powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here and now, as the arena of a violent formative contest. Judged by the higher standard, academic freedom does not flourish at Harvard...
...which we descent shaking off the humiliating yolk of western domination world-wide, we draw strength for our struggles. Our perspective is truly Third World. As our pride grows, so does our anger at the ignorance and insensitivity of the larger community at Harvard. We will not continue to suppress this feeling...