Word: refraining
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...quickly followed by a new refrain. "We's so sick and tired of you damn nigger-lovers." The two in the back row kept that up, while the two in the front had another line. "Why donctha just get outa here and leave us alone. Why dontcha go away. Cause we're a fixin' to kill us a nigger-lover...
...ethical reasons" reject the pontifical guide lines "need not necessarily feel that they have separated themselves from God's love." Conscientious objectors to Humanae Vitae may continue to receive Communion without confessing that they practice contraception. The only conditions are that they keep their decision to themselves, refrain "from sowing confusion in the ranks of the faithful," and continually reassess the moral propriety of their course...
Rosenthal and Jacobson politely refrain from moralizing, suggesting only that "teachers' expectations of their pupils' performance may serve as self-fulfilling prophecies." But the findings raise some fundamental questions about teacher training. They also cast doubt on the wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between...
...Jude refrain...
Miss Duffy has a special talent for describing landscape, seascape and weather. But a sea that is always cold and grey and a climate so English that "the morning wept over them" become a too mournful refrain to the novel's dreary proceedings. Next time her hero should try the South Seas...