Word: valiantly
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...done more to push Israel toward compromise. Since the last round of autonomy negotiations ended in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzlia two weeks ago, Cairo's negotiators have grumbled about the timid conceptual approach adopted by the U.S. at the bargaining table. Despite his valiant efforts to find common ground between the two sides, U.S. Special Middle East Ambassador Sol Linowitz has been criticized in Cairo for failing to rise above an arbitrator's role and assume a more forceful position in the negotiations. The Egyptians complain that the Americans have not produced specific compromise plans that...
...White Sox put up a valiant battle, but these Blue Jays will not be denied victory. Doug Ault clouts two homers, then comes to the plate with the bases loaded. He hits into a double play...
...will respond from the heart and not the mind, just as many did after Kent State or Selma. In the end, the opponent may be converted to your point of view, decide that it is in his interest to accomodate it, or actually be coerced. In October, despite the valiant attempts of demonstrators to reason with construction workers and policemen, even such limited conversion was rare. Coercion seems unlikely in a system weighted as heavily as ours to the protection by force and law of property. But accomodation remains a possibility, as long as the New England anti-nuclear movement...
...that is dispirited at the moment because of the protracted nature of the crisis. This is one more blow to the body politic in the sense that Americans will really anguish over the fact that we could not carry out the rescue successfully. Even failure in what was a valiant and justifiable effort carries with it a certain price. My admittedly superficial reaction is that, to some extent, the President has suffered political damage...
Schlondorff feels he must play with Grass' symbols and he has included many of them: Oskar's red and white drums, the smashed glass, the eels, the death of Oskar's mother by over-consumption of fish, Oskar's valiant attempts at sex, cemetaries, the death-dealing Nazi-party pin. Yet unlike Grass' novel, Schlondorff's film refuses to tie these ugly images together; time has strange dimensions and the laudably meticulous attention to detail--violent and spectacular--leaves us empty. The Tin Drum is full of disturbing moments: Oskar is forced to drink a stone and urine soup; eels...