Word: waded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual felicity for sifting and sorting incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim the surface off life itself; when one person catalogues life's vicissitudes, he jolts many others out of an unwitting stupor. Nin laments our cultivated numbness in the latest volume of her diary with an observation that parallels Miller's complaint in Cancer...
Along this line, Chayet says, the defense may cite the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in January 1973 and also a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court finding of July 1974 in Doe v. Doe. The Supreme Court's "abortion decision" asserted that a woman has the right of privacy to terminate a pregnancy with the approval of a physician. The majority opinion in the latter case held that this right obtains even where a husband objects. "In both cases a great deal of authority is given to the mother," Chayet added. A national commission...
...major works," the gentle social satire is nevertheless entertaining and chock-full of Shaw's provocative themes from the unsatisfactory relations of children and parents and women and men to the Life Force that opposes death to the stagnation of English society to the logic of socialism. To wade through this interesting but sticky bog of ideas with a light step, the Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater expends an extraordinary amount of energy. Despite a lack of polish apparent in the slow opening portion of the play, the company held a large opening night crowd enthusiastically engrossed by playing...
...insight, and eventually relegate old-school historians to peripheral pursuits like intellectual history. In the past, the humanists have managed to hold off the invasion with light scholarly musket fire. Statistics and averages are misleading. (Everyone knows the story of the nonswimming statistician who drowned in trying to wade a river with an average depth of three feet.) Sociologists are well known for expending a king's ransom on graph paper, conferences and field work to prove something that everybody knows, e.g., there is some likelihood you will marry the girl next door. Besides, as Arthur Schlesinger Jr. once...
...Wade Rathke, chief organizer for ACORN, said yesterday that he will ask the Arkansas Public Service Commission at a prehearing conference June 11 if the letter--which calls for more emission controls on Arkansas Power and Light's proposed 2800-megawatt coal-burning White Bluff plant--is admissable as evidence at the hearing...