Word: diminish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Antigona has a difficult role. She not only enacts a scene but also steps outside the action to comment upon it. Ravenal is at her best when she is being a "witness to her times." She colors her idealism with a matter-of-fact sarcasm that does not diminish her goodness. Ravenal is tough and human; her lines could be rhetorical harangues but she delivers them with unaffected directness. Confronting other characters, Ravenal is less effective. At times her passionate responses to her mother and friend seem overly dramatic--mainly because the visitors offer little to respond...
...student Arkansas State. "Yet you are forced to recognize that the program operates at a loss and that you've got to pick up that loss from auxiliary moneys. That really puts the pressure on you." Echoes Stanford President Richard Lyman: "Those pressures are not going to diminish. Athletics costs are mounting faster than the cost of living, and most universities feel that they've exhausted such remedies as raising ticket prices dramatically...
...Tonkin in 1967. Those who have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish−one experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck...
From this analysis, Wilson arrives at a solution: increase legitimate opportunities for the underprivileged, but place major emphasis on mandatory punishment. He divides criminals into hard-core lawbreakers, potential criminals and experimenters who drift along. The latter two groups will diminish if faced with severe punishment, he reasons, while isolating the first group for extended durations will reduce its ability to repeatedly break the law. His proposal would not eliminate crime, he says, but it would reduce...
...post-war ascendance of economic development and black equality. Southern politics rested, until the last few years, on a consensus of sorts between upper and lower class whites: most white political leaders did nothing to eradicate the inefficient small holdings of poor white farmers, nor did they try to diminish the privileges of poor whites in general versus blacks. For their part, the mass of Southern whites mainly steered clear of radical movements--despite support for neo-populists like the Longs or Jim Folson in Alabama--and contributed votes of, at least, apathetic tolerance to the coalition. (The South...