Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On Journeyman, "Anything For Your Love" fades out with Clapton crooning the words "for your love" over and over again. Struggling alongside friend Robert Cray, Clapton is completely overpowered by synthesizers and programmed drums. Now so far removed from his blues roots, the journeyman that Clapton has become seems willing...
"We all owe a debt of gratitude to the president of the United States, who was willing to stand up and support a minimum wage increase, thereby reversing the policy of the prior administration, which had consistently opposed any increase," said Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine.
"One of the things that got me hooked into this is that I was a legislator for many years and amassed a large number of services for helping people at many levels," he says. "And I have seen in effect that legislation go down the drain because people lost faith...
"He's willing to take bold, risky strokes, rather than just tinkering at the edges," says Seamus P. Malin '62, director of the Harvard International Office, who worked with Kraus in the undergraduate financial aid office.
Readers will have to take sides here, or struggle to find a compromise somewhere in the middle ground. For beneath its endlessly diverting surface, Eco's novel constitutes a litmus test for ways of looking at history and the world. Casaubon, the narrator, recalls himself as a younger man, when...