Word: suppression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together flashbacks and scenes from Levine's suddenly conceived campaign for the Presidency, Halberstam chronicles the education of a political mechanic cast unexpectedly into the starring role of candidate, a practical man suddenly on the verge of living out the dreams of power he had always been able to suppress. A.L. Levine thinks like no politician you've ever come across: idealistic but with the practical sense to attain his vision, knowing his limits, and not trying to hide his ugliness but instead turning it to the good. And always guarding a sense of humor, laughing at himself as easily...
...trying to suppress the midnight carousers by saying, "Are you mad? Or what are you?," he can make the word what sound perfectly awful-similarly, in a later scene, when he brands them "shallow things." In the Letter Scene, Malvolio reads the sentence, "If this fall into thy hand, revolve." I must confess that I always enjoy seeing the actor foolishly turn around (as Rabb does), although in Shakespeare's day the word revolve meant simply consider, and had not yet taken on the modern meaning of rotate...
...mother or my family. I believe in justice but I will defend my mother before justice." The famous phrase caused Camus to be mocked for 20 years by leftist intellectuals who uncritically backed the Algerian revolutionaries. He broke with his friend Jean-Paul Sartre when the philosopher tried to suppress news of Stalin's gulag...
...timing of that scheduled execution helps explain the Soviets' sudden espousal of the Harris case. It coincided with the end of the Belgrade Conference on European Security and Cooperation on March 9. On that day, the U.S.S.R. managed to suppress any mention of human rights in the final document produced by the conferees, even though the 35-nation meeting had been called to review compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords, including its human rights provisions. The Russians evidently seized on the case of Johnny Harris as a convenient riposte...
...President John R. Silber said yesterday that the university has "never used funds to suppress union activities." B.U.'s consulting firms have never advised the university to violate the National Labor Relations Act, he added...