Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time when our leaders think they can slip this past an unwary country, students must demonstrate that they actually care--and strongly oppose--this tack. Tonight, at 7, on the steps of Memorial Church we have that opportunity...
Because of the overwhelming success of The Boss's latest tour, many of his followers--greatly swelled in number--were expecting Springsteen's next album to be a live record. But instead the 33-year old performer has taken a tack which threatens the immense popularity he has recently gained after 10 years of unrivaled performing and recording. Nebraska, released last week, is a compelling and daring solo effort featuring the most severe music of Springsteen's career; with rarely more than an acoustic guitar, Springsteen confronts his America and its fallen characters in a most disturbing, direct and effective...
...course, one can always try the American approach and pretend to ignore the past entirely. Jews have generally taken the opposite tack: to yank the past into the present so forcibly that time has virtually no demarcations. Part of the Passover ritual is the exhortation that everyone in each generation feel he personally has just gone out of Egypt. The presentness of death is a central element of Judaism. The various prayers of lamentation, the practice of shivah (the seven-day period of mourning), the published announcements of grief, all lie at the heart of a faith that looks solely...
...aimed at: visitors, especially businessmen; people who have moved into a new region yet remain interested in news and sports from their former homes; and suburbanites whose local dailies are just too local. Gannett seeks only a small fraction of current newspaper readers, but hopes to amass enough such "tack-on buys" to reach a circulation by 1987 of 2.35 million, vs. the Wall Street Journal's current 2 million...
Taylor takes the tack that Haider is a victim of flattery, subtle intimidation and an inordinate love of the uniform. Out of the emotional stress accompanying his mother's senile dementia, Haider has written a pro-euthanasia novel. It conies to the Fuhrer's attention, and Haider admits to "the surge of pride in me! Reading that scrawled sentence in Adolf s shaky hand-It said: 'Written from the heart...