Word: underlay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living in Moscow, Ivinskaya has had her intimate recollections of Pasternak published in the West, thus risking the further wrath of the authorities in the Soviet Union. She has also made another, perhaps more portentous choice: to expose the human frailty that is the underlay of heroism and the foolishness that may be attendant upon genius. She tells of her endless "female tantrums," provoked by Pasternak's determination not to leave his wife and children but to maintain two households instead. To these outbursts the writer often responded, "this is something out of a bad novel." "I suppose...
Radicals have often criticized the philosophy behind the liberal arts ideal. It is hard to persuade students who want revolutionary change in American society that they should first immerse themselves in the cultural life of a society they believe is fundamentally corrupt. Radicals have charged that political ideas always underlay the concept of a liberal arts education. The conflict between liberal education and radical education is a question that has to be resolved before discussions of requirements can take place...
...wanted that character to be the way music is in out lives," Rudolph said, responding to a question. "When you buy a record and play it, it is up to you what that performer is." Such thinking suggests a point of departure from the premises that underlay Joan Tewksberry's Nashville script, where most of the major characters appeared first as entertainment figures in one way or another but later came under some intense scrutiny anyway...
This image of the Social Democrats as architects of a spreading and insensitive bureaucracy is probably what led many young Swedes to become relatively conservative and thus vote, as they did last week, against the socialists. Fear of further concentration of power underlay another key campaign issue: the opposition to a labor union scheme for the gradual transfer of control to the unions of all private enterprises...
...these points all seemed to agree, and everyone, even the Spartacists, pledged support for the MPLA. But what underlay the discussion was the profound opposition over what effect the Soviet Union was having through its support of the liberation movement. A group of people steeped in leftist rhetoric continually skirmished over the issue of Soviet "social imperialism." Throughout, however, the Spartacus gadflies persisted with their line...