Word: constraints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town of the Cartesian odalisque...
...Harry Reems conviction was a mistake because any arbitrary constraint on freedom of speech is the first indication of tyranny," Bailey said...
...quality of play-survived the onslaught of a gifted new generation of players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association retained the ban on dunks during warmups. (Regulation-play attrition is high enough: the University of Detroit broke 20 rims, at $30 each, in 27 games.) But it is a niggling constraint, and one scarcely noticed by fans who come to cheer the unleashed superstuffers...
...hasn't yet been asked to serve participating fully in the evolution of a future foreign policy. So the actual identification of a Cabinet member is not so important as having that [person] help me in the process of transition. I don't feel a time constraint...
...positively disposed toward leaves of absence. "What we try to do for students who are considering leaving is give them a context in which they can make sense out of the advice they have received from various quarters." Morimoto says the end of the draft removed an important constraint on men considering time off; he adds that the pressure on students owing to heavy competition for places in graduate and professional schools has increased markedly in recent years, and suggests that this has resulted in more leaves of absence due to stress and self-doubt...