Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejects, over-the-hillers, and rejuvenated hacks. Just like Nixon's White House squad. Allen's Redskins cheer themselves and pat themselves on the back when they succeed. Just like Nixon's men. Allen's Redskins sulk when they lose. Just like Nixon's men. Allen, the human re-tread wizard, has made a career of reviving worn-out careers. Nixon has been through it all before...
THESE METAPHORS held up when he was writing about himself, but with Marilyn, Mailer has tread over a few ethical lines that, if they aren't legally or morally reprehensible, do vitiate his professional powers...
...grim faced place. A meagre garden decks its front, and the inside is all stark white surfaces--clean line meeting line. Quite the proper house for art, this ascetic place to go to look but not to touch. The spareness is calculated for hushed awe. Culture lovers tread softly through these rooms of the great and the dead. No spring romps through these solemn halls. For this is the showcase of the Tasteful...
...Council. His latest appointment confirms his double role of academic savant and government servant--he has served the Federal government's executive branch nearly continuously since 1961. Like his predecessor, John Kenneth Galbraith, the most visible member of the Economics Department, Moynihan has added New Delhi to the well-tread Cambridge-Washington route. If he follows Galbraith's lead as the art collector by bringing back more Indian miniature paintings from his jaunt, the Fogg will welcome him home...
...application of these virtues was easier when Harvard was a religiously monolithic community. But in a community of pluralism, secularity, and ethical humanism a minister must tread cautiously, Gomes observed...