Word: countervailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offers have been spurned by the National Democratic Front, the Communist-dominated alliance that bargains on behalf of the insurgents. The peace bids, scoffs N.D.F. Negotiator Antonio Zumel, are part of the Aquino administration's "soft tactics to countervail its naked sword of war. It is a sheer farce." Says Vicvic Justiniani, the national spokeswoman for MAKIBAKA, a women's organization that is part of the N.D.F.: "Our view of what constitutes peace is not the same as Cory's. Peace can only come with social justice. So it is a question of whose ideas prevail, ours or hers...
...those of us who were weaned on traditional Gilbert and Sullivan--who wore thin the D'Oyly Carte records as children and faithfully attended all the local and high-school productions--this sentiment was not only irritating--it was difficult to countervail. In the face of ever-harder times for new playwrights and non-commercial theaters, how could we justify our inordinate fondness for the costly iron-clad stagings of ten Victorian crowd-pleasers. What could we say to defend our cherished tradition and its domination of artistic resources that would not make us sound like David Stockman...