Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discuss John Connally's looking beyond the so-called Jewish vote to the larger issue [Oct. 22]. Big John is quite prepared to play the appeasement game in return for Saudi oil. Since his way of dealing with the larger issues would turn over a huge portion of the Middle East to the Soviet-backed P.L.O., one wonders how large an army he is prepared to commit to the area in order to ensure our oil supply...
Despite years of experience and large numbers of patients (an estimated 100,000 people undergo treatment in the U.S. each year), no one is exactly sure how ECT works. According to one theory, the seizure affects the hypothalamus, a portion of the brain regulating production of the body's mood-controlling substances. What is known is that patients often do not recall either the treatment or any events immediately before it. But critics of ECT, even as it is practiced today, say that it can also cause permanent brain damage, including a loss of memory of events...
...parable. At still others he is as comic and trenchant as Saul Bellow: a pretentious artist declares, "I must create. This is a physical need with me." A writer who consents to meet with a wealthy vulgarian is enticed with promises: "In the other world, a huge portion of the leviathan and a Platonic affair with Sarah, daughter of Tovim. On this lousy planet, he's liable to sell you a condominium at half price...
...CAST, although generally competent, particularly warms to their roles during the last scene, which-appropriately enough for a law school audience--takes place in a courtroom. From an epic style in the earlier portion of the play. Brecht shifts nimbly to parable. Grusha must contend with the haughty mother over who will gain possession of the child. Azdak, the magistrate-rogue, played with animation by David Miller, gives the "chalk-circle test." Grusha lets go of Michael because she doesn't want to hurt him "I brought him up! Should I tear him apart...
...problems of these groups, though. The whites of West Roxbury and the liberals of the Back Bay will tire of the racial confusion and turn to chiding the poor for disrupting their comfortable city. Politically, the importance of the poor will dwindle as they make up a diminishing portion of the electorate. Blacks, students, tenants and poor whites simply don't vote in large enough numbers to make a difference. Socially they will be the outcast of both the affluent newcomers and the Irish establishment. The real challenge of the next White administration will be to protect the rights...