Word: tug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Teddy Roosevelt shut down the post office until Indianola guaranteed her safe return. Said T.R., in a letter to a friend at the time: "I will be conciliatory with the South up to a point; then I stop, and stop short, too." Indianola was equally adamant, and the tug of war went on until eventually Mrs. Cox herself refused to return under any circumstances, after which the post office was reopened with a white postmaster...
...chief conflict in the play remains that between Conscience and Compromise. Although Antigone and Creon both appear in the earlier part of the work, they confront each other face to face only in the second half--and this tug-of-war is the heart of the play. In this production, the two principals are a worthy match for each other: Maria Tucci and Morris Carnovsky. Carnovsky is of course a known quantity. But I had never been especially struck by Miss Tucci's endeavors. Her Antigone, however, is miles above anything she has done before; it is in fact...
...zoos is that the youngsters will love the animals more if they are given a chance to touch them. So it was for the new children's zoo at Seattle's Woodland Park. Says the zoo's architect, Fred Bassetti: "We wanted the kids to play tug of war with the monkeys, pet the rabbits, hug the lambs, be chased by the geese-in a word, to participate rather than just look." Hence a minimum of cages and fences...
Uncompleted, ambitious, yet troubled-as the already growing slums at its outskirts attest-Brasilia symbolizes all the hopes and visions of Brazil, and the distance yet to go. The tug of modernization is strong and compelling, but tradition and apathy are fighting hard rearguard actions. The economic indexes show that, broadly speaking, Brazil is falling behind many other advancing countries, including some of its neighbors in Latin America. But this is not the final judgment, for Brazil has reached a middle stage in its development at which the dynamics of modernization can work wonders if the country can only channel...
Reagan, of course, denies any such aspirations. "Look," he says with a winning smile and a nervous tug at his right ear, "I am not a candidate for President. I have a pretty big job right here." He does indeed. Elected by nearly 1,000,000 votes on a promise to "cut, squeeze and trim" spending, he has submitted the largest state budget in U.S. history-$5.06 billion. Having promised to keep taxes down, he has proposed the biggest one-shot tax increase ever -$946 million...