Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start whittling things away, you have to have some other point of confrontation with the antagonist. Because the antagonist is not going to go away, and neither are we going to cease being antagonists--because we believe in our principles and our expansion and our type of world, we're very aggressive and expansive, pushing around all over the lot, as the Chinese in Peking can tell you. So you're going to have conflict somewhere
...famous of his works was his book-length 1925 study of Jesus Christ, The Man Nobody Knows. Upset that Sunday school teachers often reduced Jesus to a "sissified Mary's little lamb," Barton set out to prove that, in truth, he was a real get-up-and-go type. "He was the most popular dinner guest in Jerusalem," wrote Barton. "A failure! He picked twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organization that conquered the world." The Man topped the bestseller list for two years, inspired Barton to produce He Upset the World...
...unnamed, the new paper is the result of brain-trusting by a twelve-man committee of Timesmen headed by Assistant Managing Editor A. M. Rosenthal. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel stressed that the Times as yet has made no decision to publish. "This is an experiment to see what type of afternoon paper it might be if we go ahead. It is an effort to conceptualize...
...mortgages, to which it is now confined. Bankers oppose any larger role for Fannie Mae, charging that the agency often disrupts the mortgage market it is supposed to steady. Last year, for example, Fannie Mae not only supported an above-the-market price for certain types of mortgage offerings but also suspended buying mortgages more than four months old or larger than $15,000 (a limit that favors the South and Southwest). Commercial bankers figure that they could take over part of Fannie Mae's job if Congress would allow them to make loans above today...
...Shylock that Shakespeare drew was no type; he was an intensely individual man, with many facets to his make-up. Whatever the playwright intended, the character is so complex that it can readily be treated as essentially farcical, or villainous, or sentimental, or patriarchal, or pathetic, or tragic, or.... We do know that Richard Burbage, who first played the role, made Shylock a comic figure. On the other hand, Beerbohm Tree early in our own century showed us a hysterical Shylock, who, on finding his daughter gone, ranted and howled through the house, tore his garments, threw himself...