Word: commitment
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...this, Bridge keeps being asked to commit himself emotionally. Almost by reflex, he tries to reach his children, but his gestures end in general embarrassment. Though he loves his wife, he can think of nothing appropriate that might convey that fact except a new car and some shares of Kansas City Power & Light. Determined to retain his dignity, he moves carefully through the sunny meadow of middle-class affluence as through a dangerous minefield...
Strong has developed a lean, unadorned way to commit the starling newness of the world in prose. His people see and tell, hardly ever do they feel...
Changing past community policies--or lack of policies--of the University has been a slow process. Throughout the fall, Harvard (and M.I.T.) administrators met with a committee created by the Cambridge Housing Convention. At the meeting, the Housing Convention members demanded that the universities immediately commit themselves to a sweeping program of housing, while University representatives suggested beginning with projects that were immediately feasible. The meetings ended without any substantial progress...
Despite his efforts to salvage erring establishments, Fielding frequently errs himself. For annual corrections in cities that the five-member team has been unable to visit, Fielding is forced to rely on a network of friends?florists, restaurateurs, airline employees, local city-guide editors, shopkeepers. They commit numerous howlers?and so has Fielding. In his 1969 book, he says that there are "only 125 miles of turnpike" in France, when in fact there are more than 600. He calls St. Tropez on the Riviera "a sweet little port," and maybe it is?in the winter. During the warm summer months...
Grass points his finger at those who do not act when they should as well as at those who commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office...