Word: surmountable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those internal press stories--like efforts by black staffers on the Washington Post to increase black representation on the paper--which the press itself would leave unreported. (More) is least interesting when simply documenting the self-evident evils--like sexist advertising--that plague journalism. But given that (More) can surmount its provincial perspective amid the newsmen's bars of Manhattan, it has a fair chance of leading the kind of serious self-examination that the established press should be performing on itself on a daily basis...
...fills in the military and strategic history (Poland, Norway, France, Russia) in ways well calculated to stir indignation or imagination in American readers, who have a provincial tendency to think the war was really won or lost in Western Europe. Von Roon is most handy, indeed, in helping Wouk surmount one of the great problems posed by a book of this kind: the need to touch the imagination by undoing the encrusted assumptions that what actually did happen was inevitable...
...NATIONAL need seems clear enough," the report says. "Early education is failing to provide millions of children, particularly poor children, with the personal and cognitive resources they need to surmount the social circumstances in which they find themselves. Educational reform, especially educational reform for the less affluent, must deal concretely with very young children; for the pattern of failure and withdrawal established for many children by the middle elementary grades is very difficult to reverse...
...Pilgrims do not deserve the sentimental image created for them by Longfellow and his contemporaries in the 19th century, when the name Pilgrim itself finally began to catch on.* They had to be, and were, considerably tougher to surmount the brutal odds threatening their survival-one aspect of the myth that has not been exaggerated. During the first winter, cold, disease and famine cut their number in half-13 out of the 18 wives who came on the Mayflower died. More might have perished had not an early landing party stolen Indian corn from buried caches-a find they considered...
...override the education veto. The Senate was scheduled to vote on the veto this week, and since the bill had passed there without a dissenting vote, the override was certain to carry. Equally predictably, opposition leaders were unable to raise the two-thirds majority needed to surmount the HUD veto; it died with the vote. The two vetoes and the votes to over ride were the highlights of one of the busiest weeks in Government during the Nixon Administration. Other important actions...