Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...repressed even the heat of his Puritanism, President Carter last Friday solemnly painted his own vision of how the nation can at last conquer inflation and recapture past economic glory. It is a narrow vision, with no bold initiatives to harness the energy and resources of the American people. Instead, it demands they submit passively to "pain" and "discipline." Fifteen times those dolorous syllables rolled from the President's pursed lips...
...urge Harvard to accept the lower price--not for fear of the "public criticism" that city officials have promised to level should they not, but instead because Harvard should take every opportunity it can to ease problems it has helped create...
...Instead, Harvard should continue trying to establish good relations with the city. Last year's donation of a $500,000 parcel of land to a neighborhood group for low-cost housing was an important gesture. Working with, not against, Cambridge officials on the Sacramento St. field would be another...
...violence, I was upset to see you blaming intense Straus Cup competition for the altercation between the Quincy and Winthrop House hockey teams. Being one of the protaganists in said altercation, I would like to make clear that my motives had nothing whatsoever to do with the Straus Cup. Instead, I was provoked by the other teams insistence on attempting to "rearrange my face" with their hockey sticks. Though I cannot speak for the oppositions motives, I know that mine certainly were unrelated to "intense intramural competition" or "emphasis on the stupid cup"; rather, my actions were purely intended...
Cummings had few ideas. Instead he used a petrified list of "goods" and "bads" about which he felt passionate. Flowers were good, all mechanisms, including radios and vacuum cleaners, bad. Feeling was good, thought bad. Freedom was good, conformity bad. Worst of all was responsibility, something Cummings made a career of avoiding. Richard Kennedy's fat, workmanlike and affectionate book, Dreams in the Mirror, is the first full-scale scholarly biography of the poet. Partly because of Cummings' character, reading it is a bit like wrestling in a boxcar full of feathers. The cargo is ticklish, and there...