Word: sway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Doctors are bracing for an onslaught of male patients suffering from the ills to which high heels are heir: sore hamstrings, shortened calf muscles, sway-backs, backaches and spontaneous "fatigue fractures" of the metatarsal bones. Warns one orthopedic surgeon: "I consider these shoes dangerous, particularly for ankle injuries. There is no question that the higher the sole is off the ground, the greater the leverage on the joint...
...recognizes that any influence he will have on education depends on how rapidly and how effectively his new deans take hold; also, he must sway current deans to his way of thinking. "It's probably healthy, and certainly inevitable, that no school at Harvard can ever change decisively within a year," he said. "New courses, new research, evolve slowly. One does not look for decisive change; one looks for gradual changes in direction...
Indeed, these three sides of the man are reflected in Comrade V. The liberal idealist, of course, in the elusive character of V. himself, that would-be reformer in a state without conscience. The anarchist holds sway over the psychiatric demolition of V.'s identity as well as any basis for rational reconstruction of the situation. Finally, the stoic is suggested by the very concept and assembly of this creative, witty fiction, which in commendable contrast to the exiguity of much of contemporary fiction, deserves, if not demands, not only a first but a second reading...
Neither the fortuitous accident which brought him in touch with his Crimson reviewer, nor his recent entrance into the literary pantheon, seemed to discomfit him much. After remarking that the Lampoon headquarters where he had once held sway were much plusher than the Crimson's game rooms, he spoke freely of future plans, in a light-timbred voice which unexpectedly erupted into husky laughter...
...studs are the exception and not the rule; in modern drama, the temptress holds sway. Compounded of many elements, the image of the woman as temptress contains one that may possibly be paramount. It is the fantasy of a relatively passive male who would like the woman to take the sexual initiative or even requires her to do so. Few writers have caught that particular aspect with the exactitude of a speech in British Playwright E.A. Whitehead's Alpha Beta, a corrosive drama about a married pair that death would do well to part. The two characters...