Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know what it's like to live in a family torn apart by alchoholism, by social disruption; people who don't have enough to eat, younger brothers and sisters, younger relatives with malnutrition in 1978. People here don't see the tragedy of it and how it can compel some one to try to do something about...
...similar resolution proposed at UNESCO's 1970 meeting by the Soviets and rewritten since then to eliminate some of its more heinous features. Yet the present 1,500-word version still contains several provisions with chillingly Orwellian overtones. One would endorse government licensing of journalists. Another would compel news organizations to print official replies to stories a government deems unfair...
Pinochet insisted that the charges were only "presumptions and not proof," leading State Department officials to believe that he has no intention of turning over the trio. Nonetheless, some State Department specialists still hoped that Chileans' outrage over the indictment might compel Pinochet to cooperate. Said one U.S. official: "The possibility that a death squad was sent to the United States with the knowing consent of Pinochet is something that is bound to stir up most Chileans." But they lack most political and press freedoms, and Pinochet has weathered serious political storms in the past. When reporters in Santiago...
...himself is open to charges of ax-grinding: though unindicted, he was a major target in the FBI probe, and his refusal to tender a requested resignation brought his prompt removal as head of the New York office. In any case, his accusations warrant a thorough airing, and they compel the American people to withhold a hearty round of applause for the judgment shown by Bell and his department. The verdict is still out on Gray and his fellow defendants, and the same should hold true for their prosecutors...
...also to growing numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal of the artist by Rosenberg...