Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. "We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callosly that it is incapable of matching the moral thrust of divestiture fasters...
...work was more staid, more modest, less conspicuously "inventive." Painting, he considered, was "a branch of natural philosophy, of which my pictures are but the experiments." From Nicholas Milliard's Elizabethan miniatures through Rupert Brooke's pastoral poetry, a deep love of the particulars of landscape, nose thrust in the hedgerow, has always been central to English culture. No wonder, then, that Constable's following is large and loyal. His landscape is just what the English feel nostalgic for as they dodge trucks on the bypass amid the billboards and concrete goosenecks. It is conservatism writ...
Mailer's current complaint seems a classic case of answered prayers. In Advertisements for Myself (1959) he thrust himself stage center. He became his own best subject and turned narcissism into a method of social analysis. For a heady period, no major public event in U.S. life seemed quite complete until Mailer had observed himself observing it: a huge anti-Viet Nam War march on the Pentagon (The Armies of the Night); political conventions (Miami and the Siege of Chicago); the Apollo space program (Of a Fire on the Moon). Mailer was not content simply turning out excellent books...
...thrust of the document remains its challenge to many central elements of the U.S. policy of relying on an arsenal of nuclear weapons to deter the Soviet Union from starting a war. The panel still accepts John Paul's view that deterrence is "morally acceptable" if it is part of a process leading to disarmament. But the committee clearly remains deeply distressed by the basic concept of deterrence: U.S. willingness to counterattack by launching nuclear missiles. Since such an assault would be bound to kill countless civilians near military targets, it might well conflict with the tenets...
...going public with her personal tribulations. Anyone familiar with the author's bright, acerbic articles (Crazy Salad, Scribble Scribble) knows the tropes. As before, there is the Johnny Carson Comparative: She "was so stingy she once tried to sell a used nylon stocking to a mugger"; the Descriptive Thrust: "His coffee tastes like a very spicy old foot"; the Confessional Counterpunch: "I would imagine [my husband's] funeral . .. and how soon I could start dating...